/blog/enI recommend Petr Vaclavek's article in this week's MaM, in which he claims that his agency Lemonade will only work with clients which "it chooses"./blog/can-an-agency-really-choose-its-clients/This innovative piece of communication greeted me in the toilets of U Mansfelda pub./blog/plzen-city-of-culture/22 years ago, we all watched on TV in our comfortable Western homes as the Iron Curtain came crashing down, and Vaclav Havel was in our eyes the epitome of everything good in these events./blog/vaclav-havel-a-man-who-changed-the-lives-not-just-of-czechs/In his Final Word for 23 November, "Economia vs Medea" Erik Best refers to some truly preposterous recent pronouncements about how State advertising budgets should be managed./blog/how-the-state-should-manage-its-advertising-budgets/November 1st sees the public debut of a film which I "directed" (as a complete amateur) earlier this year, to be hosted on Mediar.cz./blog/velvet-evolution-a-short-film-about-the-development-of-the-czech-ad-business/It was 1992. The very idea of computers scared me. Any letter had to typed by my secretary. Presentations were written on sheets of paper and then transferred by specialists onto acetate slides./blog/rip-steve-jobs/In a previous blogpost, I mentioned how the state of Czech Railways affects the business performance of the country. Since then we have seen the arrival of Mr Jancura's RegioJet and the response from Czech Railways. The result is madness, and it is going to get more mad./blog/marketing-madness-on-the-railways/I regret to say this but I have seen considerably more incidences of potentially criminal behaviour by managers in international companies and their agencies in this country than I saw in the U.K./blog/we-must-protect-each-other-from-bad-employees/What should we make of the market research published this week that compares Czech shoppers to those of neighbouring countries?/blog/40-of-czechs-buy-on-price-is-that-all/It seems that a lot of people were surprised when I described telecommunications as a "strategic" industry - one whose efficiency affects the health of the nation as a whole. There are other such industries./blog/more-underperforming-strategic-industries/