Comments for Petit Bourgeois

Comment on Learning to let go by Thomas Duester

Thomas Duester — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:32:56 +0000

Rafael
Sounds like an interesting journey indeed. One that every manager must make but few actually spend time thinking about and building into their work patterns.
Also, it sounds like the road to your improved website is a creative process. You’re really designing something that is not out there yet. And creativity is sometimes at it’s best when it comes unvarnished from a variety of heterogeneous sources.
Best of luck on your latest endeavor.

Comment on Learning to let go by Kristine Kirby

Kristine Kirby — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 19:25:51 +0000

Lovely, well thought out and written post Raphael! But by being a good leader and letting more room for other people, more of you is getting in too, maybe in not such an obvious way.

Comment on BlackBerry Riots, Twitter Cleanup… by Raphaël Mazoyer

Raphaël Mazoyer — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 08:09:41 +0000

OMG: leveraging web 2.0 applications to crowdsource snitching:

Help us identify London troublemakers on our Flickr pages bit.ly/rnax8U

09/08/2011 23:41 by Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk)

Comment on BlackBerry Riots, Twitter Cleanup… by Raphaël Mazoyer

Raphaël Mazoyer — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 20:05:06 +0000

Well, there we go: London riots: police to track rioters who used BlackBerrys, and 450 detectives in hunt for looters.

Comment on Working on the client side by Karim

Karim — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:36:32 +0000

yeah… that should do it.

Comment on Working on the client side by Raphaël Mazoyer

Raphaël Mazoyer — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 21:01:55 +0000

Hey Karim,

Why the move? Love for the brands, and being offered a position where I felt I could get kickass work done.

Comment on Working on the client side by Karim

Karim — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:03:40 +0000

This article makes me wonder why you made the switch in the first place. What made you decide to leave working on different brands, in a swanky office, and focus on one brand – in a maybe less swanky environment?

As far as having to work with tight budgets, well that’s something everyone (client side, or agency side) has to deal with, these days. Although frustrating at times, it can also mean that you have to be creative in how to spend it. I think the lack of budget doesn’t mean a lack of creativity, or means to do something, at all.

Coming from an agency side, I think, did also help you assess and benchmark proposals from your suppliers. Which is a tremendous asset.

I think for me it would really depend on the diversity within the brand, and the strategic plan for the next few years.

Anyway, thanks for sharing that.

Comment on Unintended internet success by Raphaël Mazoyer

Raphaël Mazoyer — Sun, 29 May 2011 20:39:31 +0000

I agree with that! Well, I already posted a Twitter comeback on behalf of the brand. My colleague Mutaurwa suggests actually producing a rodent-size backpack… Not sure we’ll pull that one off!!

Comment on Unintended internet success by raam

raam — Sun, 29 May 2011 19:14:11 +0000

Forgive the pun, but run with it.

This is an awesome opportunity to become a brand that gets humour – there are very few brands that can pull off being funny, friendly, intelligent and mainstream all at the same time. (Pret a Manger sandwich shops and Mini are two of the few that come to mind).

This is probably a hugely scary decision – I can imagine various serious running people (marketing, product, production etc) being really scared at this sort of thing. But really, what have you got to lose? It’s pretty hard to see how serious running types would get offended by this – and be dissuaded to buy shoes etc from Asics because of this.

Comment on I want to hire Dilbert (or Alice) by Raphaël Mazoyer

Raphaël Mazoyer — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 20:30:47 +0000

Websmith is pretty cool indeed. In any case, position filled, I’m so thrilled!