From the crazy photographic memory of Rose Herceg…
Some of Dr Mumbo’s favourite people are strategists – they usually have an entertaining and original point of view.
So Dr Mumbo was delighted to see a column on the home page of AdNews from WPP’s chief strategy officer Rose Herceg.
In the short article, Herceg makes something of a leap, linking a US Supreme Court Justice’s observations about pornography with the difficulties in defining trust:
Some people are smart, some copy smart people. hard to tell the difference.
Seems that Dr Mumbo has a photographic memory for dredging up old news to hurt someone…..feels a bit mean-spirited. I’m sure Rose paid dearly professionally and personally for being caught out by Media Watch all those years ago. As for the current example – she didn’t claim credit for the quote, but should have credited the source. Give her the benefit of the doubt in the spirit of kindness?
Give Rose a break! Surely we are all guilty of learning stuff and then using what we have learnt. It makes the world go around. I have spent my entire career taking other people’s ideas and thinking, reshaping them, using them. I can’t even remember now which were originally mine or which I got from others. Isn’t that what Picasso meant when he said something like: “A good artist copies, a great artist steals.”? Rose is a great thinker, and I reckon she helps our industry grow with her ideas and thoughts. I don’t care where she gets her inspiration from, so long as she keeps sharing it. At least she is making the effort, while most of us sit passively on the sidelines, shouting criticism from the peanut gallery.
Give Rose a break! Surely we are all guilty of learning stuff and then using what we have learnt. It makes the world go around. I have spent my entire career taking other people’s ideas and thinking, reshaping them, using them. I can’t even remember now which were originally mine or which I got from others. Isn’t that what Picasso meant when he said something like: “A good artist copies, a great artist steals.”? Rose is a great thinker, and I reckon she helps our industry grow with her ideas and thoughts. I don’t care where she gets her inspiration from, so long as she keeps sharing it. At least she is making the effort, while most of us sit passively on the sidelines, shouting criticism from the peanut gallery.
that was funny Huw
Chris – what on earth do you mean? Are you saying you lift and plagerise and don’t reference other people’s ideas too. If you’re admitting to that you’re mean and self centered.
People need to build their own thinking and if in the process of doing so they borrow from others they they should acknowledge it. Surely?
Also if I was public ally shamed like the above I’d make darn sure I never did it again.
Read it again my friend. Chris makes a valid point.. we all learn stuff and then use what we have learn to think, reshape, mould to our own challenges and thoughts.
I dont think you need to acknowledge something you have learned if you are not claiming authorship of an idea. That’s just talking.
Give Rose a break! Surely we are all guilty of learning stuff and then using what we have learnt. It makes the world go around. I have spent my entire career taking other people’s ideas and thinking, reshaping them, using them. I can’t even remember now which were originally mine or which I got from others. Isn’t that what Picasso meant when he said something like: “A good artist copies, a great artist steals.”? Rose is a great thinker, and I reckon she helps our industry grow with her ideas and thoughts. I don’t care where she gets her inspiration from, so long as she keeps sharing it. At least she is making the effort, while most of us sit passively on the sidelines, shouting criticism from the peanut gallery.
She is a CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER for the world’s largest media holding company. She shouldn’t ‘make an effort’, she should provide original thoughts and lead by example.
Dr Mumbo speaks too much mumbo jumbo shit (shit, did I just steal that line from this great tune: https://genius.com/Kasland-mumbo-jumbo-lyrics)
My friend there has never been and never will be a statue built for critics (shit I think I stole that line from here: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/08/04/statue-of-critic/) . And you are definitely no exception. Your so-called ‘co-incidence’ was a one-liner sentence which any idiot could recall, photographic memory or not. And you knew that, which is why you did a bit of a deep dive going back 15 years to 2002. My what a sleuth you are.
What purpose does your article serve, and what is your intention here? Rose is and always has been a shining beacon of positivity and brilliance in the ad industry. Ah yes, you’re the ‘anonymous’ guy who goes around trying to turn people’s lights off because you’ve got a chip on your shoulder and you make yourself feel bigger and stronger by treading on other people’s dreams (shit, did I just steal that line from here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/~ben/writings/TheClothsofHeaven.html)
May I suggest you watch Everything Is A Remix (https://vimeo.com/14912890) — it might help you to understand a little better how the creativity process actually works.
Hey, I remember you – the brand guy, right?
right
Why are there 2 identical comments from 2 different people? And as for the spirit of kindness. Give me a break! Once a fake always a fake.
Why are there 2 identical comments from 2 different people?