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On Monday, I posted the first of three observations from Tom’s “Ten Years After” post. Without further ado, here’s the last three observations on complexity, creation versus communication and the search for meaning. Drowning in Complexity. (TA): The marketplace is growing increasingly complex. Rather than understanding the underlying patterns for success and being driven by […]

Tom Asacker wrote Sandbox Wisdom ten years ago. The book was a personal journey for him at the time – self-published and sent out to those he thought would find it useful – and proved to be a pivot point for what became the next act in his life. I read Tom’s blog long before […]

I’ve lost clients to big agencies twice in my life. Sometimes, it’s you doing the taking, acting the part of the piranha in the shallows and sometimes you realize a moment too late that you’ve just been bitten. I wrote about stealing big clients away from big agencies on Monday, so today’s karmic payback. One of […]

  In my agency/consultancy life, I’ve snatched a big client out of the jaws of a big agency twice. Here’s how it worked both times. In both cases, the client asked me for advice. I knew the decision makers and they called on me because they wanted my opinion on either the big agency itself […]

Want to help me get “This Sentence Has 5ive Words: Eigen Values, Creating Truisms + the Future of  Marketing” published on 800 CEO READ’s ChangeThis.com?   Click “yes, publish it!” HERE. “Will its tapes play in my VCR?” These words grated like fingernails on a chalk board in the mid-90’s to anyone in Sony’s Personal […]