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Feb 5
2 min

Secret Sauce Goes Sour

If you, unlike Public Enemy, believe the hype, both Coca Cola and KFC have secret recipes. It’s a cunning marketing trick by the two purv...

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Jason Nisse

Feb 1
2 min

A life in financial services

Today I received a letter from one of my pension providers, telling me of a change to the way it manages my money and giving me options f...

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Jason Nisse

Jan 14
2 min

ESG in your lunchbox

At yesterday’s release of the 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer, the CEO of the global communications group, Richard Edelman, pointed to the f...

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Jason Nisse

Dec 14, 2020
2 min

Google needs Therapy?

The quote “Never apologise, never explain” has been attributed to Winston Churchill, though it was first said by Victorian classical scho...

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Jason Nisse

Dec 1, 2020
3 min

Dukes of risk - or hazard

Crossing the road the other day I was stopped by the mother of one of my son’s schoolfriends. Our socially distanced chat soon turned to ...

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Jason Nisse

Nov 11, 2020
2 min

Immigrants get the vaccine done!

In the musical Hamilton, there’s a pivotal moment where Alexander Hamilton, played in the original cast by the show’s writer Lin-Manuel M...

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Is "purpose" the Tesla of corporate comms?

Jason Nisse

Sep 21, 2020
3 min

Is "purpose" the Tesla of corporate comms?

Followers of the fortunes of electric car maker Tesla have had a ringside seat in one of the biggest stock market battles of recent years...

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Jason Nisse

Sep 7, 2020
2 min

The horror, the horror, of No Deal

Has any September felt more “back to school” than this one? After six months of lockdown, home schooling, clapping for the NHS, empty tra...

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Jason Nisse

Aug 19, 2020
2 min

Crisis, What Crisis?

On January 10th 1979, Prime Minister Jim Callaghan returned from an international summit with the US president, the French president, the...

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Jason Nisse

Aug 5, 2020
3 min

I'm Three

Thank you to everyone for the good wishes on the third anniversary of me setting up on my own. I actually missed the date because I was r...

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Jason Nisse

Jul 28, 2020
2 min

Manic Thursday

A senior Financial Times correspondent took me aside once and said: “If you can do anything to persuade your clients not to release resul...

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Jason Nisse

Jun 26, 2020
2 min

Boris breaks the rules - again!

Just ahead of his election victory, I wrote about how Boris Johnson had embraced the idea that you can fib and get away with it, so break...

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Jason Nisse

Jun 15, 2020
1 min

What is Essential?

Anyone who follows me on LinkedIn will have noticed I’ve been involved in a spat with two economists over an article one of them wrote in...

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Jason Nisse

May 24, 2020
2 min

Cummings and the cult of exceptionalism

In the first lesson after I started in the Sixth Form at my school, our form teacher announced: “You are now all adults, so you should be...

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Jason Nisse

May 6, 2020
2 min

Video skilled a seminar star

A long time ago I was given two pieces of advice. 1. Don’t attend a conference unless you are a speaker; 2. If you aren’t speaking, alway...

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Jason Nisse

Apr 28, 2020
2 min

Tearing Up The Plans

In the deep recesses of my record collection I have a 12-inch EP called “Tearing Up The Plans” by a band called 23 Skidoo. This early-198...

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Jason Nisse

Apr 13, 2020
2 min

Second Home Thoughts From A Bloke

An Englishman’s home is his castle. For the last few weeks it has been our isolation ward, office, schoolroom, gym, craft centre, disco a...

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Jason Nisse

Mar 19, 2020
2 min

A-levels fail the Covid-19 test

My 18-year-old can’t believe his luck. School is cancelled – probably for the rest of his life – and he won’t have to spend a most of May...

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Delighted to reach out to seasoned, passionate curators

Jason Nisse

Feb 4, 2020
2 min

Delighted to reach out to seasoned, passionate curators

(updated to take in additional banned words) The great philosopher David Byrne said in the seminal Talking Heads song Psychokiller “You'r...

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Jason Nisse

Jan 21, 2020
2 min

Speed is not of the essence

Take a trip on any of the UK’s many motorways and start counting how many cars with only one passenger and how many lorries you see. The ...

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