“The World will change more in the next few decades than it has in the previous few centuries.” Most executives, like most people, have difficulty parsing that statement into a sentence that makes sense to them. What does it actually mean: “change more in the next...
My friend Kushtrim Xhakli and I tried to coordinate our diaries a few times before to allow me to speak at his excellent DokuTech gathering in Pristina (Kosovo.) Finally, we managed it. Here is a transcript of my talk, the main point of which was...
Play is an antidote to stress, and stress is something every company will get when going through substantial culture change. The tools that we use to build the culture are therefore the same tools that will allow your people to move through the stressful period...
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On the importance of art in business:Without constant investment in developing the creativity of staff, companies will stagnate and eventually fail. Yet, while business leaders have been lauding the importance of creativity for a long time, and despite widespread recognition of its importance in business,...
To say that NFTs are overpriced jpgs purchased with magic internet money by fools drunk on their crypto windfalls is to misunderstand - or wilfully ignore - a fundamental shift now underway, in how brand relationships will be built from this time on. Conceptual ecosystems...
"ProbablyNothing" is a favourite expression among NFT enthusiasts. As you can imagine, it means of course an event that is "AlmostCertainlySomething." Two such events have occurred in the last few days, signifying that this nascent technology, known primarily for making ape owners substantially better off,...
Back in the day, when it was normal for artists to collaborate and present their work in public, and nobody carried an iPhone because they did not exist, my old pal, guitar virtuoso Nigel Gavin and I worked together on a series of gallery /...
The fabulous Stephanie McGann Jantzen is one of the leading voices in the Fireside community and it was a pleasure to chat to her about Boma Global, the Sonophilia Foundation, creativity, politics, leadership, play and the very serious role which art and the artists have...
“To survive we need food, sex, and creativity - and you need the last one to get either of the first two, so we know which is most important!” I did a thing with the Sonophilia Foundation. It was a lot of fun! Check it out HERE ...