Mark Earls

Gebundenes Buch

Herd

How to Change Mass Behaviour by Harnessing Our True Nature

Beschreibung

Can you explain the explosion of social phenomena like text messaging when there has been little or no promotion of the behaviour? How a Mexican wave happens? The emergence of online communities? Or - more sensitively - the steady rise of floral roadside tributes to traffic accident victims?

Unless you have a good explanation of mass behaviour, you won't have much chance of altering it. This is why so many government initiatives struggle to create real change, why so much marketing money fails to drive sales, why most M&A programmes reduce shareholder value and most internal change projects don't deliver lasting transformation.

Herd explains the 'why' of our struggles to influence mass behaviour. It reveals that most of us in the West have misunderstood the mechanics (the 'how') of mass behaviour because we have misplaced notions of what it means to be human. Mark Earls uses a diverse range of different sources, anecdotes and evidence - from Peter Kay and urinal etiquette to international rugby and rise of the Arctic Monkeys - to show that we are at heart a 'we-species', but one suffering from the 'illusion of I'.

In doing so, Earls challenges some of our deepest ideas to reveal the truth about who we are and what marketers, managers and governments can do to set about influencing mass-behaviour. Bold in its conception and engaging in its execution, Herd offers the most radical new theory of consumer behaviour in a generation.

Autor

MARK EARLS is one of the world's foremost communications practitioners and a leading thinker about brands, marketing and consumer behaviour. He has been described variously as 'one of the Advertising scene's foremost contrarians' and 'the Christopher Hitchens of advertising and marketing'. But mostly he just refuses to accept received wisdom and is determined to make us all think a bit harder to get better results. He has held senior positions in some of the largest and most influential communications companies in the world - his last job was as chair of Ogilvy's Global Planning Council, prior to which he was Planning Director at the revolutionary St. Luke's Communications. His work has regularly won awards from his peers and is considered by many to be amongst the most influential being written today. His first book, Welcome to the Creative Age, was widely read and discussed and has been translated into several languages. Mark is in much demand as a conference speaker around the world - in recent years he has spoken in the UK, USA, Argentina, France, Estonia, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Spain. He lives in North London but dreams of tight lines, off-drives and sunnier climes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 14506036000
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 162mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 655g
• ISBN-13: 9780470060360
• ISBN-10: 0470060360
• Artikelnr.: 21767298

Rezensionen

Earls has a beguiling and an irrepressible intellectual curiosity, so the book becomes a very enjoyable and allusive compendium..." (The Guardian, March 2007)

"Bold in its conception and engaging in execution, offers the most radical new theory of consumer behaviour in a generation" (Gulf Business, March 2007)

"...brain-stretching stuff, looking at economic patterns, investment history and behavioural psychology to help the reader become a shrewder investigator." (Securities and Investment Review, March 2007)

"Earls has a beguiling and an irrepressible intellectual curiosity, so the book becomes a very enjoyable and allusive compendium..." (The Guardian, March 2007)

"Bold in its conception and engaging in execution, offers the most radical new theory of consumer behaviour in a generation" (Gulf Business, March 2007)

"...brain-stretching stuff, looking at economic patterns, investment history and behavioural psychology to help the reader become a shrewder investigator." (Securities and Investment Review, March 2007)

"It will change the way you think about marketing. It will also change the way you think about yourself." (Marketing Direct, November 2007)

'The PM's advisers would do well to consult the work of Mark Earls, whose book, Herd, explores the extent to which "the physics of mass behaviour" are governed by imitation more often than ideological purpose' Matthew D'Ancona, Evening Standard 'As the riots spread throughout London and the rest of the country, I grabbed for my edition of Herd to see what it held to explain behaviour such as this. Author Mark Earls talks about how people's behaviour can be influenced by a "system that is primed"' Research