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By Charles WHITE THOMSON, CEO at Saxo UK
Inspiration comes in strange places and as I sat watching Barbie, the charismatic Weird Barbie struck a chord with me. She reflects an antidote to group think, lethargy and the popular dumbing down at the institutional and individual level. For those who don’t know who Weird Barbie is, she is the Barbie whose hair is cut short and often has felt-tip pen drawing on her face.
She is the opposite to the pristine Ken and Barbie - the individualists. She is the challenger, unbound by convention - where the child can express their individuality, or even frustration with the norm and to seek an alternative viewpoint. She is not weird, in the playground and raw sense of the word, she just thinks differently,...
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