You need the smart people, the tools and the rigour - but you also need the creativity.
(Hattip to the excellent Silicon Alley Insider)
Clay Shirky: Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Chetan Sharma: Mobile Advertising: Supercharge Your Brand in the Exploding Wireless Market
Beck: Got Game: How the Gamer Generation Is Reshaping Business Forever
Thomas L. Friedman: The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life
The Big Moo: Stop Trying to Be Perfect and Start Being Remarkable
Seth Godin: All Marketers Are Liars: The Power of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low-Trust World
Paul Arden: It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be
Andrew Jaffe: Casting for Big Ideas: A New Manifesto for Agency Managers (Adweek Book S.)
Douglas Holt: How Brands Become Icons: The Principles of Cultural Branding
Tom Peters: Re-imagine!: Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age
That's fantastic watching that almost a decade on and seeing how close we were in our predictions (Brooklyn might still be a bit young though!).
I'm going to share that with my team here and see what they think the world will have in store for 2020 - I'll let you know in a few years how close we get.
Posted by: SSikorski | October 10, 2008 at 08:58 AM