Filed under: A Bit Of Inspiration, Advertising, Agency Culture, Attitude & Aptitude, Creativity, Culture, Cunning, Management, Meetings, Professionalism
I know I am the last person in the World who should talk about professionalism – and I appreciate what I’m about to write about highlights my absolute lack of it – but there’s one thing I hate and it’s meetings.
More specifically, meetings about meetings.
For reasons I won’t bore you with, I’ve found myself increasingly getting into these positions over the past few years and while I quickly extract myself from them, I have got myself some notepads that ensure – in the short time I am there to ascertain if I should be there – I can feel some sense of quiet retaliation for being in the position in the first place.
It’s not big. It’s not clever. But it’s a nice feeling.
Filed under: A Bit Of Inspiration, Agency Culture, America, Attitude & Aptitude, Charinee, Culture, Cunning
I’m back.
I survived.
Though as you will see from this post, the evil genius of China has followed me home.
When I worked at Wieden+Kennedy, I had a brilliant planner in my team called Charinee.
She was one of the best natural presenters I’ve ever seen … using her smarts, charm and charisma to basically win over the fiercest of audience.
I really liked Charinee, I even wrote her a nice ‘goodbye’ when she pissed off to live in NYC.
Recently I got to see what she thought of me.
I was a dick. An annoying, giant dick. As demonstrated by this …
But the joke is on you CC, because I already knew you thought that about me …
Cue: Evil Laugh even if this is not an achievement I wish I had achieved.