Oh, please. Does anyone who has worked in an ad agency for more than two seconds find any inspiration from these ham-handed, buzzword-laden, pointlessly prolific manifestos that are seemingly aimed at corralling the awesomeness of creativity which supposedly resides within the agency? If you've seen/read one, you've seen them all. Well, here's another one -- this time from DDB, which thinks it has the answer. It's influence. It makes us grow. It makes us proud. It makes us free. And it's the freedom from chaos. And fear. And DDB is happy to provide this the world over at the "intersection" …

Well, you can't win them all, Maurice -- but you can win the Diversity Pioneer Award from the American Advertising Federation. At the annual Diversity Achievement Mosaic Awards ceremony, Maurice Levy, chairman and CEO of Publicis Groupe, was honored with the Diversity Pioneer award, the highest distinction given at this occasion. Launched in 2001 by the American Advertising Federation and the Mosaic Center, an integrated sector of the AAF, the Mosaic Awards mission is to promote diversity in the communications industry by valorizing the efforts and achievements in multicultural marketing. If you can't win in the M&A game, you might …