Archive for April, 2006

Monday, April 24th, 2006

Why did you get into this business?

Why did you get into this business? Not how – a topic for another time – WHY?

I’ll start. I wanted to be in a creative environment and have fun. And I did! And I still do…

Monday, April 17th, 2006

Holiday Thought

First, with so many of our friends and colleagues celebrating holidays this past weekend, I hope that they and their families all had wonderful and meaningful celebrations. In keeping with that spirit, I thought another run at leadership might be appropriate seeing as how much that subject is intertwined with the notion of the day.

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

Help Me Here

Help me here. Is there a difference between our business and our people? “No way”, might be your first reaction and knee jerk response. It was mine. That is the trouble with companies today – they pay less attention to the people and more attention to the business. Don’t they get that they are one and the same? That without the people there is no business?

Then I thought about again. What if there is a difference? A real difference? And what if we could leverage that difference, make it a competitive advantage for all of our key stakeholders, ourselves, our corporation, the financial community, and of course last but certainly not least, for our clients?

  • Hi... I saw this really great post today....
  • David, As to your question regarding the difference between our company and our people. My feeling is that there is a critical and significant one. Our company is an idea, a mission and a commitment. It has been so for more than 50 years. I founded the agency because I felt that it would succeed if it could ...
  • There’s a saying in the film world — “You’ve got to master the logistical to make the mystical.” As our work here becomes more complex, in effect, more collaborative, I think the filmmaking model might be instructive. The filmmaking machine is divided into two parts, each run by a separate leader/manager — on one side is the Director whose team ...