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Human Behaviour

Branding: Understanding The Importance of Trust

Hugh Salmon | Posted 24.04.2013 | UK
Read More: Food Companies, Newspapers, Priests, Trust, Banks, Politicians, Police, Brand, David Ogilvy, Supermarkets, Loyalty Cards, Charlie Kaufman, Business, Ogilvy & Mather, Rational Benefits, Human Behaviour, Cyclists, Emotional Benefits, Government, Politics, Branding, Marketing, Doctors, Horse Racing, Truth, UK Business, UK Economy, UK News
Hugh Salmon

In this sense, within the space of my career, marketing has gone from nothing to everything. That's some journey.

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When You Don't Know Thine Own Self

Hugh Salmon | Posted 12.05.2013 | UK Politics
Read More: Lies, Creative Thinking, Cricket, Jeffrey Archer, Human Insight, Chris Huhne, Human Behaviour, Fiction, Literature, Books, UK Students, UK Politics News
Hugh Salmon

Isn't it odd how some people take for granted an outstanding talent they possess in sacrifice of a dream they are never going to achieve? They just don't know, or won't accept, what they are good at.

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Tuition Fees: Evidence of an Unkind System

Hugh Salmon | Posted 01.04.2013 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Student Fees, Internet Addiction, Kindness, Marketing, Russell Group, Tuition Fees, Human Behaviour, University Admissions, UK Universities & Education News
Hugh Salmon

It was revealed last week that, following the introduction of university tuition fees, there has been a 40% drop in admissions. What a surprise.

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Kindness

Hugh Salmon | Posted 27.02.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Aristotle, Sandy Hook, Victoria Soto, Kindness, Facebook, Human Behaviour, John Lloyd, Desert Island Discs, Alan Watts, Larry DePrimo, Newtown, UK Lifestyle News
Hugh Salmon

In the face of the horror of Sandy Hook, perhaps now would be a good time to celebrate the kindness of the American people and hope that this basic human instinct will prevail.

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When People Expect You to Behave as They Would

Hugh Salmon | Posted 11.02.2013 | UK
Read More: Human Behaviour, UK News
Hugh Salmon

Once, I was Managing Director of a London advertising agency. After a couple of years, I felt I had done a good job. I had secured all the important c...

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A Taxing Idea for the People

Hugh Salmon | Posted 20.11.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Vat, Disabled, Toplessness, Benefits, Professor Michael Benfield, Human Insights, Home Improvements, Cut the Vat, Building Trade, Planning Laws, Human Behaviour, Disability Benefit, How to Get Rich, Black Economy, Mustique, Inflation, Felix Dennis, Cash Economy, Sick, David Cameron, UK Politics News
Hugh Salmon

'Ideas don't make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does'. So said Felix Dennis in his book 'How To Get Rich'. He's worth over £500 million, so I think we can believe him.

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When Your Greatest Strength is Your Greatest Weakness

Hugh Salmon | Posted 31.10.2012 | UK
Read More: Human Behaviour, UK News
Hugh Salmon

I saw my doctor yesterday. Sensitive, intelligent, considerate, thoughtful and understanding, he is as kind a man as any I have met.

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Why Business is Like Piracy and Needs More Irrational Thought

Jim Prior | Posted 04.09.2012 | UK
Read More: Stakeholders, Business Decision, Piracy, Decision-Making, Rationality, Banks, Five Pirates, Morality, Business, Economic Judgement, Human Behaviour, UK Business, UK News
Jim Prior

In the study of economic decision-making the Ultimatum Game is an illustration of the unpredictability of human behaviour, value judgement, and the role and importance, therein, of morality.

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Someone REALLY Special!

Hugh Salmon | Posted 29.06.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Job Spec., Behavioural Insights, Human Insights, Human Behaviour, UK Lifestyle News
Hugh Salmon

So, in my last post, we were talking about my old teacher's conviction that everyone is special at something. It brought to mind a story a friend of mine told me about his brother.

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Catch-22 of a Rotten Political System

Hugh Salmon | Posted 16.03.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Emily Pankhurst, Political Parties, Marketing Services, Economy, Liberal Democrat, Something Happened, Human Behaviour, Upstream Thinking, Conservative, Innovation, Mad Men, Catch-22, Tories, Change, Connectivity, Joseph Heller, Coalition, Middle East, Labour, Criminal, X-Factor, Marketing, General Election, David Cameron, Prime Minister, Creative, UK Politics News
Hugh Salmon

At the Leveson Enquiry this week, Richard Desmond told the barrister cross-examining him that he didn't know the meaning of the word 'ethical'.

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