Peter Gubar, a Hollywood Producer, has written that “Telling a purposeful story in a business environment where vital information is embedded and grows organically in the narrative is singularly the best way to energise a product or service into a call to action. ” (As reported by Emma Jacobs in the Financial Times on Tuesday 27…
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Long live the book… A view on the publishing industry
by David Sartof •
Note: This Post Originally featured on the WickedWriters Blog… http://thewickedwriters.blogspot.com/ Given the subject of our posts this week – our opinions of the publishing industry – I thought it might be a useful idea to revisit an earlier post I had placed on my own blog. (A blog which has now, to a large extent,…
Dar al-kutub… On the House of Books
by David Sartof •
Note: This Post Originally featured on the WickedWriters Blog… http://thewickedwriters.blogspot.com/ It has been a busy week for me, back here in the UK. I have taken up a new position in a London-based institute of Higher Education, and this has left me little time to think of something interesting to say to support you all,…
Innovation: Publishing in the modern world! Post II
by David Sartof •
Note: This post first featured on “The Art of…” blog, under my name: David Atkinson http://davidsartof.blogspot.com/ A short essay that stated as a single blog post! The book is dead? Long live the book? Really! As I bring my first novel to market (I decided, with the impatience and petulance of spoilt teenager, that I was not…
Innovation: Publishing in the modern world! Post I
by David Sartof •
Note: This post first featured on “The Art of…” blog, under my name: David Atkinson http://davidsartof.blogspot.com/ A short essay that stated as a single blog post! The book is dead? Long live the book? Really! As I bring my first novel to market (I decided, with the impatience and petulance of spoilt teenager, that I…
A short post on… SKiP(ing) into the future
by David Sartof •
Note: This post first featured on “The Art of…” blog, under my name: David Atkinson http://davidsartof.blogspot.com/ Looking for a new acronym for innovation in a knowledge economy? Forget PEST, try SKiP(ing)… I wrote, in an earlier post on Ragged Trousers, about the fact I had based that very post on an earlier essay entitled “SKiP(ing)…
Innovation: …in a game of Chinese Whispers?
by David Sartof •
Note: This post first featured on “The Art of…” blog, under my name: David Atkinson http://davidsartof.blogspot.com/ Gateway to Investment (G2i) the London-based Investment Readiness Programme, have recently (1st July) issued a post relating to the UK Government’s plan for a UK INNOVATION FUND . The G2i post prompted me to consider the game of Chinese…
On innovation and ragged trousers… just a thought!
by David Sartof •
Note: This post first featured on “The Art of…” blog, under my name: David Atkinson http://davidsartof.blogspot.com/ Robert Tressell described the “Great Money Trick” of capitalism, in his book “The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, first published in 1914. This was admirably summarised by Gary Day, in his 1997 introduction to the Harper Perennial edition of the book…
1909 – The Future and all that…
by David Sartof •
Note: This post first featured on “The Art of…” blog, under my name: David Atkinson http://davidsartof.blogspot.com/ “We will sing of great crowds excited by work, by pleasure, and by riot; we will sing of the multicoloured polyphonic tides of revolution in the modern capitals; we will sing of the vibrant nightly fervour of arsenals and…
Does business ignore the business schools?
by David Sartof •
Note: This post first featured on “The Art of…” blog, under my name: David Atkinson http://davidsartof.blogspot.com/ The following post is based on a letter I wrote to the Financial Times newspaper on 16th January – though it was not published by them. Following an article by columnist Michael Skapinker (January 7), I ask the question: does…