Kevin Roberts
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Entrepreneurial Edge
It's been shown to me repeatedly that New Zealand is full of edgy, creative, radical, flexible, ideas people. Our future depends on our ability to educate, inspire and export these ideas and help them grow and take on the world. Entrepreneurs will lead...
Fri, November 20, 2009, 4:59 pm EST -
Pump up the volume
We all have a soundtrack to our lives: the music that was thumping the night you had your first kiss; the football song you sing to cheer your team on; the nursery rhymes you teach to your children; that karaoke number that you feel you can really knock...
Fri, November 13, 2009, 9:02 am EST -
Let mana grow
I was the closing speaker at the United States - New Zealand 2009 Partnership Forum in Washington DC last month. As a believer in soft power, I talked about the power of language to create frameworks of freedom, freedom based on metaphors around family,...
Fri, November 6, 2009, 9:45 am EST -
150,000 good ideas
Ideas are the currency of the future and can come from anywhere, and Google probably know this more than anyone right now! To help celebrate their 10th birthday, Google invited people to submit their ideas to help make the world a better place for...
Fri, October 30, 2009, 9:23 am EST -
The Participation Economy, part 1
I was recently contacted by a journalist to talk about the Attraction Economy. What bad timing. I've moved...
Wed, October 21, 2009, 9:21 am EST -
The Awesomeness Manifesto
The next generation of business leaders will use new language to convey their fresh ideas. Today's business lexicon will not survive intact. I should know, because I work with a lot of young people.One business thinker doing this already is Umair Haque,...
Fri, October 9, 2009, 11:38 am EST -
Do One Thing
For change to take real effect, it needs to be personalized. Saatchi & Saatchi S, our sustainability agency, is working with big companies like Walmart to roll out Personal Sustainability Plans from their employees and then out into the world.We...
Fri, September 25, 2009, 11:47 am EST -
Do one thing
For change to take real effect, it needs to be personalized. Saatchi & Saatchi S, our sustainability agency, is working with big companies like Walmart to roll out Personal Sustainability Plans from their employees and then out into the world.We...
Fri, September 25, 2009, 10:44 am EST -
The funny things humans do
Biologically speaking, humans are a remarkable, and quirky, species. The New Scientist magazine has published a list of the odd things we do every day that don't make a lot of sense. With all the scientific advancement, you'd think we know why we do the...
Fri, September 18, 2009, 9:13 am EST -
The EyeWriter
There will always be obstacles that stand between you and your goals. Some obstacles can deal a very serious blow, like the following. When Lou Gehrig's disease paralyzed graffiti artist Tony Quam, a.k.a Tempt One, he could no longer pursue his 20-year...
Fri, September 11, 2009, 2:44 pm EST -
Mysterious Letters
It came via the post and must be the biggest mystery ever to visit the small Irish village of Cushendall. One day this past April every household in the village - 467 in total - received a handwritten letter from Lenka Clayton or Michael Crowe. But no...
Fri, September 4, 2009, 11:08 am EST -
Rewards for people and planet
If guilt is the gift that keeps on giving, here's an easy way to break its grip. We're all aware of the things that we can be doing to improve society, the community, the environment - but frequently we don't get around to activating this desire,...
Fri, August 28, 2009, 9:51 am EST -
While the gatekeepers slept
As a general rule, hot creativity does not thrive in boardrooms but in basements and bedrooms in towns you've never heard of. Talent has a way of finding its own way to the top, but it's never easy. The current squeeze on corporate sponsorship and...
Fri, August 21, 2009, 10:37 am EST -
Wipe my bum
New Zealand's most successful rugby league coach, Graham Lowe, was on his sofa one day watching a game when "Wipe my bum" came emanating from one of his twin sons. Graham realised how far he had come from coaching Manly-Warringah and the Kiwis...
Mon, August 10, 2009, 10:45 am EST -
NZ strong wool gets stronger
One of the unwritten rules of business is don't get stuck in the commodity quadrant, the realm of raw products and raw actions. For service industries like travel, this is unforgivable, which is why I will only fly on an American airline out of...
Tue, August 4, 2009, 9:04 am EST -
Parisian Bread, Sustainability, & Enoughism
It is staggering to run the numbers on our recent past. In America, total consumer debt has reached $13.8 trillion and individual debt per household tipped over 130% of disposable income. Family income dropped, but the cost of healthcare and higher...
Fri, July 24, 2009, 2:50 pm EST -
Opportunity knocks
No one in their right mind would suggest that an economic collapse was just what we needed, but sometimes, tough times do throw up opportunities we don't hear when the bulls are roaring. I remember back in the 1970s, New York was a very different city...
Fri, July 17, 2009, 1:11 pm EST -
Opportunity knocks
No one in their right mind would suggest that an economic collapse was just what we needed, but sometimes, tough times do throw up opportunities we don't hear when the bulls are roaring.I remember back in the 1970s, New York was a very different city to...
Fri, July 17, 2009, 12:44 pm EST -
Water world
Well before this blog began, I went on a conservation trip to Antarctica. It's amazing to think that the Antarctic ice sheet contains around three quarters of all fresh water on Earth. We earthlings are mostly water, and our global supply of this...
Mon, July 13, 2009, 10:47 am EST -
Tweeting the future
When the telephone was invented, no one really knew what to do with it. It was thought that it might be a great way to broadcast useful information, and perhaps, music. The thought of one person talking to another was not even considered a possibility....
Fri, July 3, 2009, 9:41 am EST
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November 11, 2009, 11:34 amIs Hone Harawira a racist?The Oxford Dictionary defines racism as "1. Belief in the superiority of a particular race; prejudice based on this. 2. Antagonism towards people of other races."Since his expletive laced email tirade Hone Harawira has been called many...
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Ellie Evans
November 20, 2009, 5:47 pmThe most shocking of talesSeveral stories this week merit a special mention in my mind-boggling news blog, but this first one will take some beating. Or shocking.A police officer called to a house in an small Arkansas town saw fit to use his Taser on the house's unruly...
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