Rules are for people who aren't willing to invent their own
Chuck Yeager, first man to break the sound barrier.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein
Problems cannot be solved by thinking in the framework in which they were created
Albert Einstein
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses
Henry Ford
You miss 100% of the shots you never take
Wayne Gretsky, ice hockey’s all time top goal scorer
My secret. I've never skated to where the puck was. I skated to where it is going to be.
Wayne Gretsky, ice hockey star

fresh perspective

The 6 differences in perspective of a tech entrepreneur to an agency …and THE SHIFT

By Mark Palmer on May 2, 2012

Jerry Maguire: “I‘m finished. I’m fucked. 24 hours ago I was hot. Now….I’m a cautionary tale.”
At the Global Festival of Media I facilitated a panel of technology entreprenuers around the topic of “shift”. In short, in the world of exponential change linked to things like technology, social, mobile and big data are agencies going to take [...]

Posted in Media | Tagged change, entrepreneurs, festival of media, fresh perspective, Google, innovation, media & marketing, music, pivot, shift happens

More Orange Dinosaurs & Weird Sheep will save the world

By Mark Palmer on February 2, 2012

My son who is 18 will probably have 20 different jobs and 5 different careers. The world he will live in won’t progress like the one I’ve grown up in. It wont stay the same. I think back to when he was 4 and he drew a picture of an orange dinosaur. As [...]

Posted in Media | Tagged edward munk, fresh perspective, orange dinosaurs, weird sheep

Are you suffering from business collapse disorder?

By Mark Palmer on September 9, 2011

You have no doubt heard of the decline in bees.
The collapse in the global bee population is a major threat to crops. It is estimated that a third of everything we eat depends upon honey bee pollination, which means that bees contribute some £26bn to the global economy. In the UK alone, bees contribute £200m [...]

Posted in Media | Tagged Apple, Bees, Biodiversity, change, Colony collapse disorder, fresh perspective, Google, innovation, Leadership, Nokia

Seek understanding not the truth

By Mark Palmer on March 10, 2011

In 1967 a graduate intern from Cambridge working towards her PHD helped discover one of the major break throughs in our understanding of science and the universe. Her name was Jocelyn Bell and what she helped discover was something we now call Pulsars. Pulsars are highly magnetized, rotating neutron stars that emit a beam of electromagnetic radiation. Neutron [...]

Posted in Media | Tagged discovery, fresh perspective, ideas, innovation, Jocelyn Bell, physics, pulsars, science, space, understanding, universe

The 3rd way to innovation

By Mark Palmer on March 3, 2011

When it comes to a project are you: A. An early starter or B. Pressure prompted. Go on tell the truth. If you are not sure, go outside and look at the boot (trunk for my USA friends) of you car. Is it tidy and organised, or are there things left in it from the [...]

Posted in Facilitation, Leadership, Media | Tagged Brainstorm, Early starting, fresh perspective, Guggenheim, innovation, Judging, Leadership, myers briggs, Perceiving, Pressure prompted

Why Hotel Towels Are Swinging This Election

By Mark Palmer on April 23, 2010

As the second TV election leaders debate closes in the UK, one thing is becoming clear to me. This is not an election about who to vote for. This is an election about giving you “permission to vote for”. The secret to understanding the huge swing to the Lib Dems may well [...]

Posted in Media | Tagged behavioural discipline, behavioural psychology, change, election, fresh perspective, hotel towels, Lib Dems, Politics, TV debates

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