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Heard on Radio 4 this morning: "The market hates uncertainty." While most analysts and investment bankers would this to be a truism, it is no doubt a problematic statement when it becomes clear that the idea of perfect market systems operating in a vacuum of efficiency and equilibirum is inherently false. You could argue that those of us working in PR - particularly digital and social...

Heard on Radio 4 this morning: "The market hates uncertainty." While most analysts and investment bankers would agree this is a truism, it is no doubt a problematic statement when it becomes clear that the idea of perfect market systems operating in a vacuum of efficiency and equilibirum is inherently false. You could argue that those of us working in PR - particularly digital and...

I awarded Umair Haque's portmanteau term "Macropocalypse" one of the best neologisms of 2008 earlier in the year. With hindsight it turns out that Umair was absolutely on the money with his prediction. Umair brings all his thinking on the macrocalypse, business strategy decay and the atrophy at the heart of global organisational infrastructures in this powerful post for Harvard Business'...

Pure poetry: "…companies so lobotomized that they can’t speak in a recognizably human voice build sites that smell like death." [Context] [Via Doc Searls]

Book launch from David Brain on Vimeo. David brain has kindly made the video available of the recent book launch for Crowd Surfing. Enjoy. Technorati tags: Crowd Surfing, David Brain, Martin Thomas

I’ve been tagged with couple of memes recently and have finally managed to get round to converting ideas to words in the second case. In the first instance my apologies to Nicky and Andy as I'm so late with their question as to who are my three most admired communicators I can't imagine my comtribution is relevant!