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- How, when and where will the first truly great digital design studio emerge? | Mobile Inc
Management.
- Warren Buffett: The three things I look for in a person | Farnam Street
- Why employees shouldn’t have set working hours | LinkedIn
- The credentials trap: “optimizing for external validation is a dangerous trap. You’re fighting over a fixed pie against well-credentialed peers. The most likely outcome is a middle management job where you’ll have little impact and never seriously attempt to realize your ambitions” | Chris Dixon
- Why humour is a key to success at work | Forbes
- If you’ve ever been told your beliefs and approaches aren’t right, don’t accept it | The Musings Of An Opinionated Sod
Innovation.
- What makes a good moonshot? | Harvard Business Review
- How cooking lunch can be a business model innovation | Innovation Excellence
- Thinking smarter: An example of a business tackling a problem by using the problem as a bugbear for those who cause it. | The Ad Pit
- 8 successful entrepreneurs give their younger selves lessons they wish they’d known then | Fast Company
Data and technology.
- Data is only used to inform the media components of the ad. Rarely, if ever, is the data used for the creative portion. Why? What candy can teach us about digital advertising | AdExchanger
- Disruptions: even the tech elites leave gadgets behind | NYTimes.com
- The product design sprint: a five-day recipe for startups | Design Staff
- What to do if you’re hacked | Medium
- How to get over the uncanny feelings that digital versions of humans create | PSFK
- Online anonymity to be confined to virtual history | FT.com
Insights.
- How to walk away: the psychology of lost causes | The Atlantic
- Diaries, the original social media: How our obsession with documenting (and sharing) our own lives is nothing new | Nieman Journalism Lab
Creativity.
- Editor, product manage thyself: the job of editing needs to be integrated with the systems that deliver that content to audiences. | Medium
STW Group news.
- STW Group launches Edge Asia, a regional digital network in Southeast Asia | Campaign Asia
- STW on Asia acquisitions: we don’t buy digital agencies to salvage traditional players | Mumbrella Asia
- Don’t bother making bad ads, says Craig Flanders from Spinach.
- Bohemia nets major Quick Service Restaurants win | B&T
- Tongue gets the nod from Cisco | B&T
- Craig Badings from Cannings has co-produced an e-book on thought leadership with two international co-authors. It’s a substantial piece of work with some great case studies. Download at his website.
- Designworks’ CD wins AGDA Poster Biennale | LBBOnline
- Is innovation the next great white hope, asks Juha Pelkonen at The White Agency.