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From Planner to CEO?

From Planner to CEO?

How does a career as a planner prepare you — or not — for life as the CEO of a creative agency? And what fresh perspectives can those…
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Claire Strickett
Good habits, bad habits, and riding crops

Good habits, bad habits, and riding crops

Open Strategy School of Planning with Mark Pollard & Richard Huntington
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Claire Strickett
Different Schools of Strategy

Different Schools of Strategy

You might think there’s only one school of strategy that counts — this here School of Planning. But as it turns out, we are large, we…
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Claire Strickett
Creative Development: Why Planners Should Love Research

Creative Development: Why Planners Should Love Research

‘We want to test the concepts in qual’ — every planners dreaded words. But they shouldn’t be. In the School of Planning’s most recent talk…
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Shadi-Sade Sarreshtehdarzadeh
Creative Development: A planner’s guide to building not bombing

Creative Development: A planner’s guide to building not bombing

At the latest Open Strategy event, three speakers tackled the topic of creative development, focusing on how planners should build ideas…
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Shadi-Sade Sarreshtehdarzadeh
Creative development: How to build and not destroy — The Creative’s View

Creative development: How to build and not destroy — The Creative’s...

At the latest Open Strategy event, we had three speakers tackle the topic of creative development, focusing on how planners should build…
Go to the profile of Shadi-Sade Sarreshtehdarzadeh
Shadi-Sade Sarreshtehdarzadeh
A bluffer’s guide to writing an awards paper

A bluffer’s guide to writing an awards paper

‘So… what was that all about?’
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Henry Bilson
Structuring strategic storytelling

Structuring strategic storytelling

People always look fairly perplexed when you say your job is a planner in an Ad agency. After the standard “Is it just like Mad Men?”…
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Lydia Taylor
Speaking to People: The Strategist’s Secret Weapon

Speaking to People: The Strategist’s Secret Weapon

“We don’t talk to enough people about stuff”, this was the hit home message from Lucky General’s Strategist, Loz Horner as he took the mic…
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Lydia Taylor
Class is in session

Class is in session

“What’s your worldview?” was the question. Plato, Aristotle or Wittgenstein the possible answers. Not the obvious place to start a lesson…
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Gethin James
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