Not quite PR but still worth the fight
So the people have spoken. They have told us that ‘none of the above’ had a strong enough narrative to deserve sole power. Have we lost the once in an era chance for real change and transition to grown-up co-operative democracy? The Tories shifted their position on PR considerably. But is it enough? It’s AV...
Cameron@TED
Not to be outdone by the competition, David Cameron has lost his TED-talk virginity (Brown spoke last year). In a speech on his Big Idea of ‘people power’ Cameron seemed to be quoting from Citizen Renaissance saying “It is a post-bureaucratic age and the citizen/consumer is in charge”. Developing the theme of his Big Idea,...
The Decade of the Citizen
As we remain firmly rooted in our Western economic bath-tub and emerge from the dusts of Copenhagen, it seems ever clearer that Citizens are the missing link for 2010. The Citizen Renaissance message for 2010 is this: Be the change. Aspire not to have more but be more. Do more. Together. Politics continue to fail...
Corporate Social Engineering
Watching Simon Schama’s wonderful American Future again this weekend I found it fascinating and chilling to hear about Ford’s early C20th efforts to encourage its immigrant workers to speak, think and act like ‘real Americans’. It made me think about the power of companies and the current fad for CSR in all its many guises....
