I made the decision a while ago that I wanted to keep “Lemonade” free or as close to free as possible. People who lose their jobs shouldn’t have to pay Hollywood prices to see a film about people who lost their jobs. Plus, more people seeing it only helps me in the long run.
It costs [...]
Between, CA, D&AD, Art Director’s Club, Clio, ANDYs, Effies, Addys, London International Awards, the hundreds of local and regional award shows and publications devoted to celebrating the awesomeness of the advertising creative, it’s no wonder the industry has a reputation of self-congratulatory jackassery.
But something dawned on me recently. And I can’t believe it took me this [...]
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
The Last Advertising Agency On Earth from FITC on Vimeo.
When agencies (and people) refuse to evolve, this is what can happen.
Willful checks emails every five minutes hoping to hear from a recruiter.
Willing leaves the Blackberry at home while it volunteers at a food bank.
Willful spends sleepless nights worrying about money.
Willing cancels cable and sells the second car.
Willful tweaks the kerning on its resume.
Willing launches a side project cool enough to eliminate the resume.
Willful opposes force, [...]
The following is the second of two posts by Michael Bungay Stanier, senior partner at Box of Crayons and author of Do More Great Work
Four questions
I start almost every workshop I run asking the participants to score themselves between 1 (low) and 7 (high) on these three questions:
How active and engaged do you plan to be today?
How [...]
Thursday, February 25, 2010
You may or may not remember my first “Huzzah! I was unceremoniously laid off, too!” guest post here at PFTA back in April, ‘09. No worries if you don’t; feels like thirty years ago. Which would have made zero sense, considering I would have been twelve…and, let’s be honest, why should a pre-teen have expected [...]
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Third in a series of posts inspired by Seth Godin’s Linchpin.
A woman I know was laid off in 2008 after a 14-year career in broadcast journalism. Now at the end of her financial rope, she had just a couple months of living expenses left and no real prospects of another job. She was understandably scared.
“What [...]
Sunday, February 21, 2010
First in a series of posts inspired by Seth Godin’s Linchpin.
A few years back a bunch of advertising-displaced friends reunited for a whitewater rafting trip. I came from New York. Three others came from Boston. One lived in Vegas. And we all descended on my former partner in Chattanooga, who was to be our river [...]
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Do something interesting. Do something worth talking about. Do something worth sharing.
That’s how you stay alive, vibrant, and employed (if you want to).
Thursday, February 11, 2010
At more than 3M views, it’s likely you’ve seen this already. If you haven’t — and even if you have — take 15 minutes to watch it now. Or a few less minutes to read the transcript.
And be careful to avoid “yeah, but he’s Steve Jobs so reinventing is easier” thinking. I would argue it’s [...]
