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Healthy friends and responsible individuals

herdmeister | 2010-07-28 16:27:21

Nice piece on the wires today which echoes a lot of John Cacioppa's brilliant book Loneliness:Low social interaction turns out to be a significant health risk"Equivalent to smoking 15 cigare...

What we share

herdmeister | 2010-07-26 23:20:16

  One of the most unhelpful and destructive ideas of the last few decades has been "what I own"Apart from encouraging us to think about things rather than people (which misses the point o...

Jeremy Clarkson on the HERD

herdmeister | 2010-07-19 14:17:34

  "Have you ever watched a vast swarm of starlings rell around the sky in Africa? Or a million-strong herd of wildebeest? If so, I'm sure you've marvelled at their ability to communi...

The 1 and only P of Marketing

herdmeister | 2010-07-15 15:57:08

  Source: NetMBA.comPicked up this post from Brian Solis yesterday via Twitter (HT @Adamgraham)Not quite sure what to make of the direction of the thinking, but it struck me as rather odd to suggest...

Gone Fishin

herdmeister | 2010-06-26 11:53:29

  Pic c/o PrattlefromtheflatlandsSee y'all in a couple of weeks...

Join a gang

herdmeister | 2010-06-23 08:43:55

  The Big Shorts about to take the stage last week. Join a gang (as Kurt Vonnegut famously observed). Or a band. Do stuff with other people.Don't try to do it on your own - It's only huma...

Football is a social object

herdmeister | 2010-06-19 14:28:57

  It's rarely fun being an England sports fan (with the exception of today's Rugby Union team who scraped a win over Australia mostly our teams disappoint). The current football world cup...

What comes next

herdmeister | 2010-06-18 16:46:28

  Pic c/o Adam78 This morning, in a cab on the way to a briefing session for a new project, I realised I was feeling something a bit odd. Good-odd, not bad-odd.You know that really tingly feeling w...

The office is not just for work

herdmeister | 2010-06-17 15:31:12

  Pic c/o some hard-working AussiesInteresting (and as ever) thought-provoking post from Seth on the end of the officeWhilst topical (and hugely resonant for those of us who live on thin air), it�...

Rethinking what business is for

herdmeister | 2010-06-16 14:14:54

  Here's something I've been wanting to get off my chest for a while. Not sure it's that popular, but that doesn't stop it being fundamentally right. Amid all the confusion of t...
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