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		<title>here an insight, there an insight, where an insight?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So. Every once in awhile in the ad/marketing business we talk about “what’s the insight that will help us create the big idea?” Ok. Not every once in awhile. Actually ad nausea. So often your head hurts. In fact it may be the reason why people in the industry drink as often as they do. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>friends, feedback, influencing &amp; a new economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So. My thoughts on this topic were inspired by a trendwatching’s briefing called “The F-Factor.” Their briefing (another excellent one by the way) discusses focuses how the impact of influencers’ on purchasing has increased because of the web (and the dynamics associated with the web). By the way. Trendwatching has another excellent briefing called Crowd [...]]]></description>
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		<title>never interrupt the enemy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Never interrupt the enemy when he is making a mistake.” - Napoleon Bonaparte This is a follow up to yesterday&#8217;s “when you start to suck, stop.” Why? Well. Because that one was focused on your suckedness and this is focused on someone else’s suckedness. Simplistically. If your enemy is starting to suck … don’t interrupt. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>knowing when to stop</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“when you start to suck, stop” – Kristen Hersh So. This is so explanatory it needs no explanation. However. What I would suggest to everyone is that, in general, people don’t stop when they start to suck. And they don&#8217;t for one of two reasons: They are oblivious to their sucking. They recognize their suckedness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>confessions of an ad man</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brucemctague.com/?p=6457</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well. Maybe its because I get to talk with a lot of teen/20somethings or maybe its because all my friends are cynical bastards … but I seem to defend the advertising business a lot. And maybe because of that I thought I should take a moment and share some truths. Because the business (for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>hard choices</title>
		<link>http://brucemctague.com/hard-choices</link>
		<comments>http://brucemctague.com/hard-choices#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[truth]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brucemctague.com/?p=6652</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok. Let&#8217;s talk a minute about Kodak. And the fact that their demise had nothing to do with lack of foresight or inability to innovate (because they actually invented the digital camera). Kodak is about leadership, or the lack thereof, and people and decisions (or the lack thereof). When an iconic company and brand like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>jeep &amp; robert frost</title>
		<link>http://brucemctague.com/jeep-robert-frost</link>
		<comments>http://brucemctague.com/jeep-robert-frost#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[advertising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[campaign]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[good Jeep tv ad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[good tv advertising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hard to say something different]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jeep wrangler arctic and robert frost]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[messaging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry and tv ads]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[say it differently]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[say it differently to be distinct]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[smart tv ad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stopping by woods on a snowy evening jeep ad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[using the real author as voice over]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[words]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brucemctague.com/?p=6642</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok. It is very difficult in the car advertising business to make your advertising stand out. Car manufacturers spend zillions of dollars (ok … only billions of dollars) and it is difficult to find something truly new and relevant and interesting to say. So sometimes you just have to find a different way of saying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>facts and creation</title>
		<link>http://brucemctague.com/facts-and-creation</link>
		<comments>http://brucemctague.com/facts-and-creation#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[alignment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[being interesting and relevant]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[original ideas are typically nuances of existing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[people confuse process and disciplined thinking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[process is a means to an end]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[productivity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[respect]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[simplicity seems too chaotic]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[the myth of original]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[truth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[words]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[worry about implementing a great idea versus protecting it]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brucemctague.com/?p=6419</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“Without the hard little bits of marble which are called &#8216;facts&#8217; or &#8216;data&#8217; one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are not so much the individual bits, but the successive patterns into which you arrange them, then break them up and rearrange them.” - The Act of Creation I find it tragic to watch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>fearless work</title>
		<link>http://brucemctague.com/fearless-work</link>
		<comments>http://brucemctague.com/fearless-work#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[serious life decluttering]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brucemctague.com/?p=6618</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Creativity is a tricky thing. Having been involved in the creativity business in some form for over 20 years I recognize that the best of the creative best are … well … part insecure … and part fearless. And it’s the fearless part that I am going to write about because I saw this quote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>its all about the balance sheet, baby</title>
		<link>http://brucemctague.com/its-all-about-the-balance-sheet-baby</link>
		<comments>http://brucemctague.com/its-all-about-the-balance-sheet-baby#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[recession]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[responsibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[saving money]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[saving versus buying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seeking new experiences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spending money as soon as we have it]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[story of two americas]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[that i will be tomorrow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the decline of europe]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[the have nots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the haves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[this i am today]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[time magazine]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brucemctague.com/?p=6299</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So. This is about the American economy and a plea for all of us to quit bitching about how the government is the fault for all our economic woes. Yeah, sure, the government could (and should) take some actions to help … and improve their own balance sheet. But. The combination of the US population [...]]]></description>
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		<title>economic center of gravity</title>
		<link>http://brucemctague.com/economic-center-of-gravity</link>
		<comments>http://brucemctague.com/economic-center-of-gravity#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brucemctague.com/?p=6281</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is an awesome study completed in late 2010 called “Global Economy’s Shifting Centre of Gravity.” Ok. Maybe not awesome to some people … but to me? Fascinating reading (I actually read it over my vacation which included some cocktails while reading &#38; making notes). Here is the net: -          In 1980 the global economy’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2011 best tv ads</title>
		<link>http://brucemctague.com/2011-best-tv-ads</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brucemctague.com/?p=6251</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So. It is the end of the year &#8230; but .. at the end of November (I think) AdWeek magazine (the people magazine of the advertising industry) published their top 10 television ads of 2011. As Adweek states &#8230; it doesn’t seem that long ago that we were watching the “super bowl ads” and assessing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>global latin American</title>
		<link>http://brucemctague.com/global-latin-american</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brucemctague.com/?p=6243</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every once in awhile you come across some magazine advertising that makes you actually stop and look (rare &#8230; I know). It isn&#8217;t annoying, smelly (those damn cosmetic ads), condescending, impossible to figure out what they were trying to say (or why they did it) or have some random half naked model in it. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the more things change the more they stay the same</title>
		<link>http://brucemctague.com/the-more-things-change-the-more-they-stay-the-same</link>
		<comments>http://brucemctague.com/the-more-things-change-the-more-they-stay-the-same#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brucemctague.com/?p=6226</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[First. Because of the business I am in (marketing advertising business consulting) I am constantly inundated with the buzzwords associated with the “new and unique” … and all the pontificators who spout them … and how people are constantly suggesting the world is changing &#8211; like it has never changed before. Second. Because of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>you know you have done something right</title>
		<link>http://brucemctague.com/you-know-you-have-done-something-right</link>
		<comments>http://brucemctague.com/you-know-you-have-done-something-right#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brucemctague.com/?p=6159</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[so. You often know you have done something right if you have pissed someone off. Ok. That was extreme. How about not everyone.  Just some people. Really? (you say). Yup. Great ideas and thoughts tend to be polarizing. Now. Let me be clear. Some ideas are polarizing because they are just, well, stupid &#38; bad. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>your soul’s value</title>
		<link>http://brucemctague.com/your-soul%e2%80%99s-value</link>
		<comments>http://brucemctague.com/your-soul%e2%80%99s-value#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brucemctague.com/?p=5842</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ok. This isn’t a religious post. Nor is this about selling your soul to the devil. Its nothing really that deep. Ok. Maybe its deep just not that kind of deep. This is simply about how far someone is willing to go to sell.  Or maybe better said how far someone will go to get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VW</title>
		<link>http://brucemctague.com/vw</link>
		<comments>http://brucemctague.com/vw#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brucemctague.com/?p=6038</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok. VW has always done some really nice advertising. They remain one of the few companies who really has understood that what differentiates them is their product’s brand character and not really their features (or the lack thereof). What I mean by that is while they will talk about a sometimes quirky appearance or how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orange</title>
		<link>http://brucemctague.com/orange</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So. Orange mobile is the biggest European cellular company (maybe largest globally but I am too lazy to research). And they have inspired me to write about something I actually know something about (advertising in case you were guessing). They have developed a brilliantly well written funny campaign to talk about themselves through borrowed interest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a company of adventurers</title>
		<link>http://brucemctague.com/a-company-of-adventurers</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brucemctague.com/?p=5889</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Leadership is a tricky thing. It is walking a fine line of truth (grounded in what is real as well as ‘not lying’) and aspirational (giving people a glimpse of what they can be). And, as with anything, this is about some functional practical things and emotional soul searching things. Oh.  And connecting them.  It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>one hundred monkeys</title>
		<link>http://brucemctague.com/one-hundred-monkeys</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[discovery is messy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[nothing is original]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok. Everyone knows I love trying to understand why people do the things that they do (attitudes, behaviors, etc.). therefore I am hoping no one is surprised that I find the 100 monkey theory fascinating. It is almost like a different version of crowd clout. But with a twist. As some of you may be [...]]]></description>
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