A completely boring bastard
Mike Dee
As a young, up-and-coming media professional, the moment someone dangles the first overblown job title and subsequent chunky salary in front of you, common sense flies out of the window.
Owning your mistakes
Tracy Macey
It’s so easy to assume that other people want the same things. If you take that viewpoint into a management role, you’re in for a bumpy ride.
KPIs on your deathbed
Simon Wade
Your family and friends won't stand around your deathbed talking about the KPIs you hit.
I’m a materialistic, ambitious, status-craving idiot
Tom Goodwin
We don’t think about this stuff because it’s bloody scary. It’s hard. It’s embarrassing. It’s a bit hippy, it makes us feel vulnerable.
No one knows what you do
John A. Skelton III
The solution to this is to know how low you will go and stick to it. Then everything above that is gravy.
Run your career like a business
Jessica Lovegood
This thinking change has propelled me forward more in 6 months than in the previous 6 years.
Growing too fast
Mitchel White
We took on a huge studio, but it looked daft when there were only two people sitting at opposite ends of the room.
Female and over 40
Fiona Scott
The fact that I was a middle-aged woman in the world of media, which tends to write you off when you are female and over 40, was something I then chose to ignore.
A gentlemen's agreement
Andy Golpys
Some people aren’t trustworthy, they don’t act upon their words, and ‘gentleman’ promises are a fairytale.
Trust your judgement
Lyneke Harris
Faced with a very, very tight budget, I listened to people telling me not to invest money into "useless endeavors."
Don’t work with dickheads
Martin Spiller
I chose to work with people that I was not 100% certain about. In all cases, the result was a failure varying from a bit of a mess to total calamity.
Work horses and show ponies
Jodie Stevenson
The biggest mistake I made last year was spending 95% of my time dealing with Show Ponies.
Interview with the CEO of Dreamr
Mylo Kaye
Since this interview was published, Mylo Kaye has been disqualified as a director.
You can't do it all yourself
Martin Huntbach
The first thing to slide off my to-do list was marketing. I was arrogant enough to think I didn’t need it, what with all the clients rolling in. I neglected the one thing I shouldn’t have.
Start by taking a risk
Jenna Tiffany
Everybody has a first experience with something, and that includes business. Don’t think you’ll get it right the first time around.
Changing how people think
Viv Slack
Aha moments come when we take a break from our routine - work in a different space or spend some time with paper and pens away from computers.
Focus on your strengths
Louis Grenier
I used to be obsessed with overcoming my weaknesses, but it's better to focus on what you're good at.
Trying things that don't scale
Richard Wilde
The whole concept of doing things that don’t scale flips that on its head, encouraging you to try things, test, adjust, and then find a way to make them scalable once they are working perfectly.
Being grateful for the bad clients
Angela Roche
The project turned out to be pretty costly for the company, incredibly time-consuming, and worst of all, it affected the morale of the team.
The nightmare after Christmas
Richard Silk
We had a huge project lined up for January, so we decided a bumper Christmas bonus was in order.