Whilst not wishing to be someone who has to read into everything to the nth degree, have a watch of this Carlsberg advert and take a moment to be a little bit curious about your own prejudices. Would you take the last two seats? A funny and thought provoking 2-minute
At its core, pitching is parting with your thinking without compensation. Whatever your line of thought about pitches – and whether you engage with them or not – they are a standard part of agency life and you should have a process for dealing with them just like anything else
I read an article in Harvard Business Review recently which I thought was worth a share. As agency leaders and founders, we all want the best people. And despite the call for a ‘culture-fit first’ strategy, there are many times when a person’s talent must outweigh their potentially abrasive personality,
I recorded this video with the very brilliant and lovely Rob Metcalfe a few months ago, and it has stuck with me. Rob is Chairman of Richmond & Towers and is in the unique position of having completed not one but two Employee Ownership Trust (EOT) deals in the last year.
It would be impossible (and frankly presumptuous) to try and summarise how everyone has felt over the last year, and so instead I reach for the very small but real knowledge I have gleaned from my agency leader clients, of whom all have had to navigate through change, uncertainty, and
Take solace (if you can) that over-servicing is something pretty much every agency does. A dirty little secret if you will. Except, it’s not really a secret, more something that has become so commonplace that it often barely registers as a problem. But a problem it is. Recently, I was
