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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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brucemctague.com/?p=6852</guid>
		<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>survival</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[a full life]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brucemctague.com/?p=6365</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“it is not the strongest of the species that survive, not the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin I love this quote. Mostly because those with ‘brawn’ scoff at those with ‘brains’, and vice versa, when survival (and that doesn’t have to mean life &#38; death but rather success [...]]]></description>
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		<title>confessions of an ad man</title>
		<link>http://brucemctague.com/confessions-of-an-ad-man</link>
		<comments>http://brucemctague.com/confessions-of-an-ad-man#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[a business consultant]]></category>
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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>rat girl thoughts</title>
		<link>http://brucemctague.com/rat-girl-thoughts</link>
		<comments>http://brucemctague.com/rat-girl-thoughts#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So. I wrote about Rat Girl (Kristen Hersh) awhile back … and have been meaning to come back to the book and some quotable/comment-able thoughts from Kristen and her book. Let me say this upfront. Rarely have I found so many quotable thoughts from one book. Anyway. There is no particular order for these thoughts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>to be yourself or nobody</title>
		<link>http://brucemctague.com/to-be-yourself-or-nobody</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.” - ee cummings Just when I think the battle to be yourself ends when you have gained [...]]]></description>
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		<title>fearless work</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
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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>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>if your reason for being is big enough</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brucemctague.com/?p=5802</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok. This is a simple idea in concept but fraught with peril in implementation. The concept. If your reason for being is big enough you will get noticed. I will state the obvious behind this thought just to get it out of the way. If your reason for being is big enough there is … [...]]]></description>
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		<title>you know you have done something right</title>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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>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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		<category><![CDATA[alignment]]></category>
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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>vatican music</title>
		<link>http://brucemctague.com/vatican-music</link>
		<comments>http://brucemctague.com/vatican-music#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal & Nonsensical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2pac]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[enlightened conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[myspace and vatican]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brucemctague.com/?p=5907</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well. Once again I have been enlightened.  And a surprised enlightened. And by the Vatican. And, no, it has nothing to do with religion. The dudes in the Pope’s Playhouse (and I use the term ‘dude’ loosely) have a Vatican&#8217;s Playlist on MySpace. Oh. Beyond the fact someone at the Vatican was cool enough to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>zone of mediocrity</title>
		<link>http://brucemctague.com/zone-of-mediocrity</link>
		<comments>http://brucemctague.com/zone-of-mediocrity#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Thoughts]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[agency]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[it isn’t process it is the work]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[slippery surface of irrelevant brilliance]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brucemctague.com/?p=5543</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.” Joseph Heller “We must overcome the notion that we must be regular&#8230;it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.” Uta Hagen Ok. One of the things that consistently amazes me in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>simplicity</title>
		<link>http://brucemctague.com/simplicity</link>
		<comments>http://brucemctague.com/simplicity#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[imagination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[innovation is impossible to budget]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[NASA]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brucemctague.com/?p=5225</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok. This is probably going to end my posts on simplicity.  I have written several (most recent on project briefs) and this is my most complex on simplicity &#8230; hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm  now there is a paradox. Regardless. I get to use a bunch of quotes and rant about management and simplicity so it was fun to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>simplicity &amp; the project brief</title>
		<link>http://brucemctague.com/simplicity-the-project-brief</link>
		<comments>http://brucemctague.com/simplicity-the-project-brief#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Thoughts]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change begins in the head]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[decision making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dreaming is not just for kids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exploration not ROI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[failure of imagination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[finding what is possible from impossible]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[finding your way is tough]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[generation of measurement]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[imagination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[innovation is impossible to budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[it has become uncool to do simple things in business]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life is a winding road]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[most things in life are not black or white]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[no one believes in simplicity anymore]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[simplicity has gone the way of the dodo]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brucemctague.com/?p=5456</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For an industry (advertising) where we talk about simplicity ad nausea we are one huge family of complicators. And as I pondered this issue and scratched my head I began thinking that the issue begins with step one (and just compounds from there on out). Step one? The project brief. The creative brief.  The project [...]]]></description>
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		<title>expectations as an economy</title>
		<link>http://brucemctague.com/expectations-as-an-economy</link>
		<comments>http://brucemctague.com/expectations-as-an-economy#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 12:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[alignment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[architects of fate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brand ambassadors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[branding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[builders versus renovators]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[corporate values]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[every one is an architect of life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[every one plays a role in fate]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[one foot in history one foot in future]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[respect the burden of leadership]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brucemctague.com/?p=4793</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This one is about those pesky demanding consumers. And their pesky attitudes &#38; expectations. Oh. Expectations. Expectations are truly tricky things. They elevate quickly (even moreso in the web-based transparency driven world) and they decrease grudgingly. Once a consumer has experienced a truly 100% perfect experience the bar has been set. And in today&#8217;s world? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>nba music</title>
		<link>http://brucemctague.com/nba-music</link>
		<comments>http://brucemctague.com/nba-music#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 12:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Laydown by Prince]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brucemctague.com/?p=5344</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So.  Awhile back I featured Lenny Kravitz’s song used for the NBA.  Great song.  Great use of a song.  Great decision by NBA. And then they top it. Right before the Heat-Bulls first game they crank up a Prince music video/commercial (him wearing a gold lame full body unitard like thing) that was awesome. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>character and leadership</title>
		<link>http://brucemctague.com/character-and-leadership</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 02:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brucemctague.com/?p=4548</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.” Robert Jarvik “A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.” – Jane Heard Let’s talk about leaders and leadership and character. Great leadership is inspired by great ideas and great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>slippery slopes</title>
		<link>http://brucemctague.com/slippery-slopes</link>
		<comments>http://brucemctague.com/slippery-slopes#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 01:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Sliding down the slippery slope of mediocrity.” – david olgilvy Ok. I believe he actually said “the slippery surface of irrelevant brilliance” but I thought I saw somewhere he said what I wrote above. Regardless. A great thought from a great writer and what I would call a great leader (even though he may not [...]]]></description>
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