31 Jul 2008
| by Anthony Hilton, City commentator on London's Evening Standard
Charles Handy, the management guru, once said that in business, leadership is about creating a vision that gives a point to the work of others - which seemed a pretty shrewd analysis of what it is and why it is so rare.
31 Jul 2008
| by Ian Monk, founder of Ian Monk Associates and a former executive
Max Mosley looked like a dead man walking after the News of the World vividly laid bare his bizarre private life. The fact that he was no more than a sick man with enough bounce left in his step to have his private fetishes replayed in a courtroom has profound implications for all of us.
29 Jul 2008
| by Malcolm Duffy
LONDON - Malcolm Duffy, executive creative director of MCBD, reviews the T-Mobile TV commercial 'Priceless Roman vase', which had the second highest recall with the public in the weekly Adwatch ranking for 30 July.
29 Jul 2008
| by James McGruer
The government is planning to launch a £75m marketing drive in a bid to tackle the growing problem of obesity in the UK, writes James McGruer, head of government marketing at Royal Mail.
29 Jul 2008
| by Media Week
The use of commercial radio presenters to endorse campaigns is on the rise. It's a useful new revenue stream for broadcasters, but does it harm commercial radio's editorial integrity?
29 Jul 2008
| by Tess Alps
Anyone with half an interest in how media fits into people's lives will have been excited at the recent launch of TouchPoints2.
29 Jul 2008
| by Sue Unerman
The papers, magazines and trade websites are full of gloom. The latest Bellwether Report says we're facing the most dramatic decline in marketing budgets since 9/11 back in 2001.
29 Jul 2008
| by Colin Grimshaw
My final Media Week column I devote to the future of the industry that employs me, the press. Perplexingly, in my view, it is a (print) future that too many publishers have written off, prematurely, in the rush to go digital.
29 Jul 2008
| by Media Week
It was an absolute pleasure to be one of the judges in Media Week's 30 under 30 competition this year and helped restore faith in media's future amid the current fashion for doom and gloom-mongering.
29 Jul 2008
| by David Emin
Q: I have become very attracted to a colleague of mine. We have recently been spending a lot of time together and always seem to end up with each other at lunchtimes or whenever there is a company function.