Snowboards, Interesting, Napping and the Progress of Batteries

Three loosely-related notes on a theme:
A colleague and I were discussing this morning the relative stagnation of snowboard design in recent years. By this we meant, of course, the structural design of the boards themselves, and not the graphics (which are often fantastic to behold). Both of us are old enough to recall the swallowtail, [...]

Two Toys: Trading Up vs. Trending Up

Two equally-addictive toys I’m playing with this week:
1. The Brand Asset Valuator: Some of you will be familiar with this particular gadget from Y&R (or at least from John Gerzema of Y&R). The Flex application allows you to compare the momentum of up to three brands simultaneously along four distinct criteria:

Energized Differentiation – the measure [...]

Two Interviews: Piers Fawkes and Gerd Leonhard

Two very insightful interviews posted this morning:
Chris Wilson over at The Marketing Fresh Peel interviews Piers Fawkes of PSFK as part of his Future of Work series. Fawkes opens up on his views of the changes in the workplace that Gen-Y will face:
Gen Yers are going to work for scores of companies and they need [...]