Big & Medium ideas
A collection of thoughts, words, and sketches by Renata Abbade
Inner struggles of the Strategist-Executioner
AI is raising the bar for what one person is expected to produce.
For a while, senior marketing roles drifted away from execution. Build the strategy, manage the team, manage the agencies, review the work, stay one layer up. The promised trajectory was: “Do your time in the weeds and earn your way to the bird's eye view.” It doesn't look like that's the case anymore.
Is Design Thinking a Missing Skill?
In trying to look “stable”, a lot of organizations manage the life, the curiosity, the humor, the willingness to speak the truth, etc. right out of themselves.
Design yourself for the sake of everyone!
Cognitive Partnership
We, somehow, by chance or by choice, reorganized ourselves into rigid job descriptions and hierarchical structures that ignore our socio-biological wiring. And now we expect individuals to embody the entire sequence alone, something our ancestors never had to do, as if it was possible or productive.
Deep Down Inside
What would happen if every cell in your body knew what to do? Here is a deeper perspective on awareness and intelligence!
truth seekers
Organizations tend to reward action over reflection, execution over examination, and it costs us all something essential and quite expensive.
Are you ready to tell the truth?
Here is a structure you can follow, but you have to be ready for the truth, even if it hurts.
feel your feelings
Your feelings are meant to be felt. They are physical manifestations of the human experience, and of our divine passage on this planet. Decisions are made based on feelings. Feel your feelings!
Shadows & rainbows
The resistance to look at your own darkness will keep casting a larger shadow. It's a paradox—the more you avoid it, the bigger it gets.
Conscious Narrative Architecture
The question isn't whether your brand will transform. Cultural evolution guarantees it will. The question is whether you'll be conscious enough to guide that transformation, or unconscious enough to let it happen to you as you run on the autopilot treadmill of “this is how we’ve always done it”.
On Learning and Becoming
Learning is not passive. Experiential learning is founded more on the active “doing” and participating in the process, rather than the passive “being done to”.