It’s taken 75 years to prove that Brainstorming doesn’t really work. Anyone that’s really capable of generating ideas discovered this about 5 minutes after their first session, but if you ever said it out loud, especially in a big corporation, you risk sounding like a complete, self-righteous, egotistical ass.
Liquid Lunch
People have been working hard for months. Quite a few late nights. I didn't see this yesterday, but spied this tonight. Already half polished off. There's always funky stuff in the agency fridge. This one made me smile.
On Agency Culture
We just hired another bright person, so I recently reviewed our Employee Handbook--mostly a guide filled with an overview of nuts and bolts and some legal stuff our lawyers included. At the very end I came across a small paragraph meant to give new employees a window into our culture and what we expect.