The issue is separating church & state, as a corporate entity, your responsibility is to shareholders and investments could take the place of dividends maybe?

It is from the ad agency perspective and was pretty focused on helping them answer the question: what ads do you like? are good? and why? at a job fair the following weekend. Maybe it will be helpful.

Dave, think this type of stuff is great. I believe there’s an appetite from many diff people - even the agency peeps like myself, who need to be reminded what role we play in the busy life of a BM. I wonder if there’s also an appetite for BM + agency person collabo on this subject (how to best work or review ads or something else).

P.S. Deck was from Deutsch. I’m at Wieden + Kennedy in NY now.

Blogs that post more than once a day (aggregates generally) quickly get removed from my list regardless of the quality because I can’t stand having hundreds and hundreds of unread posts to skim through in my reader.

I think that quality and insight are far more important than frequency. That insight can be on the simplest of things, just about yourself or even about the industry.

Reality is that this is a conversation. Is your post adding to the conversation or a good convo starter?

I’m a first year MBA student at Haas, UC Berkeley. I’m an engineer nwo but am quite keen to switch to a brand management role. Just found your blog through some googling! You’ve got some great stuff here! Please keep the “day in the life” posts coming from time to time.

BTW have you come across career switchers at P&G who, like me, went from high-tech engineering jobs to consumer brand mgmt roles? Any tips on making that transition would be appreciated.

Have bookmarked your blog. Will be back.

-Sam

My suggestion: if your “trying” to knock out a post to maintain a pace, just punt. Keep reading and thinking, something will happen eventually.