When the brief or the strategy isn’t great, offer to sit down and discuss it.
The strategies that lead to brilliant creative usually seem simple. Maybe the one you’re looking at is too complicated. Maybe the insight within is lost. Think of Apple’s “Behind the Mac.” Such a simple three-word strategy. Such an insightful three-word thought.
Write your own version of the strategy and share it with the account team or strategist. If you pitch it right, they might just buy it. They might add to it. Then you can go away and make brilliant creative that matches your great, yet simple, strategic idea.
Just be sure you can deliver. Don’t go slagging a strategy if you can’t deliver great work.