Predatory Thinking: A Masterclass in Out-Thinking the Competition - Hardcover

Dave Trott

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0230770665 ISBN 13: 9780230770669

Publisher: Macmillan, 2013

Synopsis

Powerful strategies for how to out-think the competition -- from one of the true greats of the advertising world

Two explorers are walking through the jungle.

Suddenly they hear a tiger roar.

One explorer sits down and takes a pair of running shoes out of his backpack. "You're crazy, you'll never out-run a tiger," says the other explorer.

"I don't have to out-run the tiger," he replies. "I just have to out-run you."

Predatory Thinking involves looking at a challenge you can't solve and getting upstream of it changing it into a challenge you can solve. Written in the form of engaging, brilliantly lean anecdotes and stories, it is the philosophy that has underpinned Dave Trott's distinguished career as a copywriter, creative director, and founder of some of London's most high-profile advertising agencies.

Drawing on Eastern and Western philosophy, and colourful characters that range from Second World War fighter pilots to Picasso, Socrates and Warren Beatty, this book represents the distilled wisdom of a lifetime at the creative cutting edge.

About this title

Book Description:

Powerful strategies for how to out-think the competition -- from one of the true greats of the advertising world

From the Back Cover:

LIFE IS A ZERO-SUM GAME
Predatory Thinking is a masterclass in how to outwit the competition, in ordinary life as well as in business. It is the philosophy that has underpinned Dave Trott's distinguished career as a copywriter, creative director, and founder of some of London's most high-profile advertising agencies.
Drawing on Eastern and Western philosophy, and colourful characters from Picasso and Socrates to Warren Beatty, this book represents a lifetime of wisdom learned at the creative cutting edge.
'A brilliant advertising copywriter and a great team leader. His ideas are equally applicable to writing a novel, making a film, launching a product, managing a football team, instituting life changes and any activity you can imagine. Genius' Sunday Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0230770665
• ISBN 13: 9780230770669
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 300