Note: This post first featured on “The Art of…” blog, under my name: David Atkinson http://davidsartof.blogspot.com/ Last week I had the good fortune to enjoy a formal reception and dinner in the roof-top Justizcafé of the Justizpalast in Vienna. I dined in the company of some bright new minds in management and organisational research, drawn…
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)"
by David Sartof •
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.…