Marketing bookshelf: 'Disruption' by Jean-Marie Dru

Book review of 'Disruption' by Jean-Marie Dru, John Wiley & Sons, January 1997.

Marketing bookshelf: 'Disruption' by Jean-Marie Dru

Reviewed by Andy Law, St Lukes

GIVEN my view that advertising and agencies are curiously conventional in comparison to the clients they work for and the media they inhabit, it was with some excitement that I approached Jean-Marie Dru's book, with its Polanski-esque title, Disruption. Disruptionbegins as a journey through advertising's past and is laudatory of famous ('seminal' in ad-speak) campaigns that span 35 years of a roller-coaster industry. It then isolates today's current obsession - our fascination with change - and neatly marshalls a dazzling array of international...

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