Management.
- Why we’re not hiring creative technologists | Wieden+Kennedy
- Stumbling up the ladder: ad agencies neglect their brightest prospects | Fast Company
- Boomerang employees: making it easy for your old workers to become your new ones | WSJ.com
- The twenty-somethings are here; get out of the way | Creativity_Unbound
- Creating a high-performance learning environment | Accenture Outlook
- The values proposition: do small things with great love | Harvard Business Review
Innovation.
- By being unorthodox, Kraft transforms itself into a creative powerhouse | Forbes
- Kraft’s new ‘Leaping’ philosophy advocates making aggressive changes rather than smaller incremental moves | Advertising Age
- Why conviction drives innovation more than creativity | design mind
- Lessons from the industry formerly known as “The Record Business” | Harvard Business Review
- Entrepreneurs who go it alone – by choice | TIME
Data.
- An analysis of Steve Jobs tribute messages displayed by Apple (read if you care about Steve Jobs, data or sentiment analysis) | neilkodner.com
Technology.
- Poor kids experience “App Gap,” says study | The Digital Shift
- Why teens are fleeing Facebook (should we be on the lookout for a new platform that parents are scared to be on?) | Forbes
- 5 reasons e-books are awesome, even for the very reluctant | PBS
- Wherein I try to explain why Google Reader is the best social network created so far | Here is a thing.
- Data point: Internet growing more truly global | JWT Intelligence
Insights.
- On the “echo chamber” – maybe it’s not as bad as we think? | BBH Labs
- Messaging vs experience/pattern models of ‘engagement’ | How To Break Anything
- Lachlan Harris: Rise of the opinion cycle makes Andrew Bolt the most influential man in media (a must read for PRs) | mUmBRELLA
- Advertising is a poison that demeans even love – and we’re hooked on it | George Monbiot in The Guardian
- Museums’ brave new turf (a must read if your job is to get more people to experience culture) | NYTimes.com
- How do luxury brands “stay hip to the web” without ruining their hyper-exclusive image? | Sparksheet
- A network analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies, mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy | New Scientist
Creativity.
- Visual storytelling: New language for the information age | Brain Pickings
- Copywriting: the how-long-is-a-piece-of-string theory | If This Is A Blog Then What’s Christmas?
- Can creativity be agile? | Influxinsights
- Apple’s aesthetic dichotomy | Made by Many
- Unboxing desire: The psychology behind packaging | The Etsy Blog
- The psychologist’s view of UX design | UX Magazine
