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Mar 2022
49m 7s

W+K's Martin Weigel on our industry’s un...

Fergus O’Carroll
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We talk about planning and cover a bunch of topics including why labels are used in strategy as proxies for genuine knowledge, how our industry’s fetish with “insight” has caused so many to lose sight of our deliverables. And whether we ever really know enough to really know. 
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