Note: This post first featured on “The Art of…” blog, under my name: David Atkinson http://davidsartof.blogspot.com/ This is not a resumption of full time blogging… but: A reader of one of my earlier posts asked “What is your opinion… upon the focus of The Sussex Centre for the Individual and Society (SCIS) as one example…
Opinion
A (personal) view on Imagination@Lancaster…
by David Sartof •
Note: This post first featured on “The Art of…” blog, under my name: David Atkinson http://davidsartof.blogspot.com/ Kevin Roberts of Saatchi and Saatchi has written on his involvement with a new project: Imagination@Lancaster. I have commented that this is a worthwhile and potentially exciting project and one that I look forward to seeing its products and…
No bigger idea than advertising?
by David Sartof •
Note: This post first featured on “The Art of…” blog, under my name: David Atkinson http://davidsartof.blogspot.com/ In “A bigger idea than advertising” Kevin Roberts (June 26th) wrote: “Slowly. People are no longer interested in being preached to about functional benefits and features [of products]. In their lives they are looking for connections and that’s what…
"A Brown business world?" or "A view from a small business (2)"
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Note: This post first featured on “The Art of…” blog, under my name: David Atkinson http://davidsartof.blogspot.com/ So, Gordon Brown is “…poised to appoint a string of Britain’s most senior business figures to a new advisory committee to guide policy-making and to strengthen Labour’s relationship with the business world.” (The Times, June 28, 200) Question! While…
View from a small business (1)
by David Sartof •
Note: This post first featured on “The Art of…” blog, under my name: David Atkinson http://davidsartof.blogspot.com/ Aside from my “freelance thinking”, I am also a hands-on entrepreneur/business owner-manager. My own (service-sector) business has developed from a single-person consultancy – in which I provided project and risk management consultancy services under sub-contract to major European and…
Can an organisation dance?
by David Sartof •
Note: This post first featured on “The Art of…” blog, under my name: David Atkinson http://davidsartof.blogspot.com/ I shall shortly be traveling to Vienna, to the 23rd Colloquium of the European Group for Organizational Studies: Beyond Waltz – Dances of Individuals and Organization. While I am not formally presenting at that colloquium, I am (as a…
On leadership and the value of childhood…
by David Sartof •
Note: This post first featured on “The Art of…” blog, under my name: David Atkinson http://davidsartof.blogspot.com/ On June 19th I attended the launch of the Northern Leadership Academy. My motivation for this visit was a mixture of my “alumni” connection with Lancaster University and a natural curiosity over what the NLA is to be about.…