Did I mention I was speaking at Dots in Brighton? Neil (who is curating) has a look at the whole line up here. Even better, I can offer a few time-limited reduced price tickets if you are one of the first five to use the discount code 'Tom' when booking online. See you you there for… Continue reading Joining the dots
Category: unthinkable
Linkened In
We constantly hear about how innovative musicians have become. The labels are wankers, dinosaurs, out of touch, unable to adapt their business model: their days are numbered. Well now it seems that the artists are wankers too. In this article from HBR, we find that the very darlings of the MySpace revolution, Linkin Park - a… Continue reading Linkened In
Unspeakable
I'll be talking at the brilliant Brilliant Noise Dots conference in September. Tickets are available here. There are still some early bird tickets available if you're quick.
Book launch
Fluxx will be holding a book launch for Unthinkable on 25 March at the Ice Tank in central London. More details about the evening here. If you'd like to come along and discuss the book, drop me a line.
Facts not opinions
We've been lucky enough to have Hugh MacLeod provide the illustrations for the book, and damn fine they are too. I won't ruin that surprise. However, I was reminded this morning of just how close in thinking much of Tom Fishburne's work is. As an innovator in a big business, we know many clients can feel… Continue reading Facts not opinions
Old jokes home
My favourite joke. Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. Moore says: "I'm writing a book", Cook replies: "Really? Neither am I." I've written a book on innovation. There, I've said it. And if there's something more commonplace, less innovative than books on innovation, it must be blog posts about how bloody hard it is to write a… Continue reading Old jokes home
What’s it about?
So. Why did we write the book, Unthinkable? The truth is that the thinking that got us to write the book is just the same as the reason the partners started the agency, Fluxx, back in 2011. We knew from years of working with companies on new things that often the most exciting ideas and… Continue reading What’s it about?