Close up of human eyes on Behance. And here’s our weekly wrap up of the best business and creativity reading we’ve encountered in the past seven days.
If you just read one thing.
- “Encourage rebellion instead of compliance”; “Practice instead of theory”; ” Constant learning instead of education”; “Compass over map”: Joi Ito plans a radical reinvention of MIT’s Media Lab | Wired UK
Management.
- Learning to love volatility: Black Swan’s Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the antifragile | WSJ.com
- “A love of money has taken over from a love of mischief, and we’re all the poorer for it.” Is advertising boring now? | Steve Henry
- Revisiting this 2009 blogpost: Mud rooms, red letters, and real priorities | 43 Folders
- Five self-defeating behaviors that ruin companies and careers | Rosabeth Moss Kanter in Harvard Business Review
- What technique does the military use to make sure plans work on the battlefield? “Commander’s Intent”: CI is a crisp, plain-talk statement that appears at the top of every order, specifying the plan’s goal, the desired end-state of an operation. | Barking Up The Wrong Tree
Technology.
- The magical tech (and hours of labour) behind Paper for iPad’s color-mixing perfection | Fast Company
- Why CIOs may morph into the Chief Digital Officer | WSJ
Insights.
- When did the internet get so nice? | New York Magazine
- The 4 Ps of marketing are far from dead, they’re coming of age | The Communications Room
- Your online attention, bought in an instant by advertisers | NYTimes.com
- Napster, Udacity, and the academy: how what’s happened to the music industry informs what could happen to education | Clay Shirky
- How to live without irony | NYTimes.com
Creativity.
- How rejection breeds creativity | 99U
- How the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine gave rise to modern animation | The Guardian
On Nextness this week.
- Nextness Visual Diary | Tracey Emin, seapunk, condoms, puggles, Grace
- “Hell, no. I can’t fall off my hustle”: lessons for creatives from the world’s biggest rappers.
STW Group news.
- Bungee jump horror ad warns Aussies of the dangers of foreign travel | mUmBRELLA
- The blaggers’ guide to online loyalty | B&T
- Two STW companies (Shift and Bullseye) show how branding helps make the workplace work.
- To celebrate 10 successful years, Assignment Group in New Zealand opened its doors to Marketing Magazine and shared a few secrets (PDF.)
- DTDigital’s Birthday Bucket List app is a hit.
- Golden Target Winners! | Ogilvy Public Relations Australia
- The Top End Photography Adventure: a case study.
- Congrats to the OgilvyOne Melbourne team for winning the prestigious USPS Gold Mailbox award at the recent ECHO Awards.