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LONDON — Some of us at Able and How have been spending a lot of the last few months in the desert. Our host country also contains the remarkable Museum of Islamic Art. A beautiful building designed by I. M. Pei. Its remarkable collection is made more remarkable by the way it is displayed. Words, geometry, functional items [...] THE ROCKS, SYDNEY, NSW — “I just don’t trust them,” my friend says over pizza. I haven’t seen him in 30 years. We were best friends as teenagers in Paris. He’s now a senior civil servant in the Australian governement. He’s just being honest. “I don’t trust the guys who want to do change management on my projects. They take big budgets and [...] FULHAM — The title should read: “The fine line between business vanity and genius: that’s change management.” But it was too long. I have just read about the Galacticos Island this morning. A billion-dollar plan to build a Real Madrid theme-park island in the UAE. It was being derided as a wild and silly idea. [...] LONDON — It’s been a busy few months. Apologies for not having written sooner. When there is a lot on you sometimes don’t get the thoughts through to the page. A stack of un-posted blogs litter my inbox. I don’t want to confuse you about brand. Able and How is not a ‘brand’ business. But because we are almost always concerned with [...] EARL’S COURT — Not sure how I missed this one. But The Independent has been running a investigative series on lobbyists. And they’ve chosen one of the biggest and most respected firms to ‘expose’. In summary, some journalists pretended to be wealthy potential clients from a large foreign country and they recorded the communications professionals bragging about things they shouldn’t [...] PICCADILLY — I’m not a journalist. Never trained as one. But I feel like I know the trade a bit. And this year’s BP story has been an interesting one. In some respects I feel like it has played out differently in the UK than in the USA. Americans have been busy trying to sort out the mildly [...] BY THE THAMES — We are being approached by more and more firms who have suffered calamitous shock recently. Sometimes businesses can be shaken and undermined by operational errors: crashes, explosions, poisonings, etc. Some can be caught out with serious infractions: unfair trading, fraud, loss of licence. And no one seems to know what to do with these. Dealing with external forces is [...] BY THE THAMES — There’s an interesting article about Transocean in The Sunday Times last weekend (subscription required). Perhaps you read it? I have been expecting something to come out, and certainly the implication is that we will hear a lot more about Transocean in the near future. I am sure there’s a lot to say [...] PARSONS GREEN — There’s a lady in a business suit sitting reading The Guardian. The Media Guardian is tossed on the bench beside her. Untouched. It’s maybe symptomatic of a larger issue. And then again maybe I am just getting old. [Cue rant.] Why do the media need sections dedicated to… the media? I [...] DISTRICT LINE — I love the way that the mainstream of public discourse can so easily reject different approaches as silly. I didn’t see the show on John Lewis last Wednesday — Inside John Lewis. A friend of mine did though. And he says they were painted as a [...] |
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