Entering a swanky building in the West End today, I saw this happen:
Someone was sitting on the wall eating a salad, with smokers each side. The security guard asked the woman eating the salad to move on. He said the space was reserved for smokers and the office owners didn’t want anyone eating by the door.
Curious…
Tags: assumptions, behaviour, values
Over the last couple of years we have had some particularly prominent news cycles:
– the personal (Jade, Jordan and The Wedding)
– the political (banks/bonuses, student loans, the truth on climate)
In some ways, these are possibly inflated in prominence by surrounding fears – of recession, personal futures, etc.
Now there is a story that is both personal and political: the NHS and Andrew Lansley have become top news.
This rap has gone viral.
This leaflet was being circulated at a school fundraiser last week.
And now ‘The Pause’ in the health reforms.
Are the NHS changes emblematic of other concerns – a Totem to project wider worries onto?
Tags: confidence, economics, health
Where do you see a typical cross-section of people in a nation?
In friendship groups – too like each other?
At an airport – too biased to those with money?
At the post office? Probably not.
What about at a supermarket – depends which one?
A motorway service station? Hmmm possibly…
The flat white coffee was invented in Auckland (or Sydney depending on who you ask) in the late 1980s.
Twenty years later, it is now being popularised in the UK by Costa (though they don’t quite do it like the attached shot from an independent coffee shop in Sydney).
Innovations can take a surprisingly long time to spread.
Tags: innovation, travel, trends
Many companies are serious about their social responsibility…but find it hard to get to level 3 of this model:
1. Offering funding or staff time to worthy charitable projects
2. Entering into partnerships with social enteprises
3. Integrating ethical values (such as promoting biodiversity) into the heart of business decisions and reward structutures.
Practising what is preached matters, it really does – see www.idenk.co.uk/values
Tags: Decision-making, responsibility, values
See these pictures of Stephen Fry.
Same story.
Two papers.
Two photos.
Two impressions?
Tags: brand
Saturday – Sheringham
By the steam railway station. On a bench amongst pretty flowers.
An older guy. Very dapper. White trousers. Immaculate shoes. Blue stipey blazer. White shirt. Red cravat. White hat.
Drinking cider straight from a 2-litre bottle of Blackthorn cider.
Sunday – Cambridge (market)
At the organic veg stall.
There is a huge selection. The season is overflowing with local produce.
Yet…there is more plastic used in packaging the items than in the adjacent M&S.
Tags: assumptions, Surprises, trends
What difference does 20 years make?
It doesn’t seem that long.
But a lot changes – often silently and unnoticed.
Comparing a few newspapers, both tabloid and broadsheets, from the same date 21 years apart reveals a few striking features:
1) They are smaller – not just the shrunken Times, but the odd inch here and there on most titles.
2) There was no use of colour, other than the defunct Today. Now it is everywhere, including the Metro, the new daily freebie in London.
In what ways do these changes in appearance reflect the changes in the newspaper market, the way we ‘consume’ news and the wider digital media landscape in general?
On the train.
I see an old contact.
Maybe he could become a new client.
I think of approaching him.
Then he puts his feet on the seats, and starts moving in ways that disturb those around him.
And begins eating an unbelievably smelly item of food.
I decide to leave it.
We all choose who we work with? Do we choose well? Are these valid reasons?
On the train.
A loud voice.
“You haven’t got enough on him.
He is crap.
Double his targets.
Make him get another job.
Gradually get him out.
You have been too nice for too long.
I will phone her to try and sort this out.
I won’t charge you.
I want something else.
I want your HR work.
I WANT YOUR HR WORK”
Laughter of disbelief throughout carriage.
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