Quotes About Agency

Shareholder value became, from the 1990s onwards, a driver of management consulting success and, somewhat sadly, of advertising agency marginalization.

The real agency problem resides in the C-suite of ad agencies, and it is to the C-suite that we must turn to find leadership for the required changes. This won't happen unless agency CEOs finally admit that poor pricing is the fundamental problem that must be solved. Agency CEOs have the responsibility to solve the price problem. It's time to get started.

Procurement sets fees based on a negotiated agreement about agency headcounts and costs, and (separately) marketing generates workloads for the agencies. Agencies, who measure client health through profitability measures alone, have no rigorous way to factor in client workloads. TABLE

Ad agencies continue to believe that improved creativity is the answer for agency and client problems.

What has my readers scratching their heads, though, is why advertisers, whose cumulative actions have painted ad agencies into a corner, marginalizing their agencies as partners, do not see any relationship between their poor brand performance and the commoditization of agency services and fees.

Accountability for agency operations is fragmented. Each office in a network is a separate profit center. Each department in an office self-defines its missions. Creative heads focus on creativity; finance directors focus on headcounts, overhead and budgeted/ actual costs and profits; client heads manage the service that they provide to their 'disorganized' clients and keep them coming back for more. (Despite this there seem to be very few happy clients.) Managing

The auditing of time sheet hours is a time wasting process that can be eliminated if contracts focus on paying agencies for deliverables rather than for man-hours.

would never again let the market dictate the direction of his life.

like so many United States government agencies, the Department of Commerce is seriously misnamed. It has almost nothing to do with commerce directly and is actually forbidden by law from engaging in business. But it runs the United States Census, the only real picture of who Americans are as a nation.

Best believe our fates are our own, even if the evidence denies it.

I met an agent through my modeling agency who encouraged me to go out and audition for sitcoms, and I was absolutely petrified because I had no desire to do it.

I really do see that anywhere I am, whether it's doing interviews a hundred in a row, that every situation I'm in, I'm at choice in the matter.

I came into the advertising business in 1952, at the age of sixteen, as a delivery boy for a stuffy, old-line advertising agency named Ruthruff and Ryan, which could have served as the setting for the 'Mad Men' television series without moving a desk.

Working for a federal agency was like trying to dislodge a prune skin from the roof of the mouth. More enterprise went into the job than could be justified by the results.

Free will...it's all the rage these days

The FBI conducts criminal investigations in addition to gathering intelligence.

I knew the moment I held you in the theater, that you were the reason for everything. Every single turn my life has made led me to you. Were I not the man I am, the agency would never have approached me and I would not have found you, my soul mate. In fact, you are so like me, it is nearly frightening, yet you continue to surprise and astound me.

The trouble was, I hated the idea of serving men in any way. I wanted to dictate my own thrilling letters.

What I hate is the thought of being under a man's thumb," I had told Doctor Nolan.

We are free -- to become agents of whatever power we wish.

The person who commits an action is the one responsible for it, not the people he commits the action upon.

No one asks a robot what he wants.

No one can make up your mind for you, unless you make up your mind to let them.

You have a certain amount of power. The way you choose to use it is entirely up to you.", Jack Simple to Celestra Caine in FADE by Kailin Gow