Excerpts & Excuses
Here we are again. Beginning a post with an acknowledgement of inactivity. Happy 2015. Happy February. Whoa, February. Despite the lack of action around here I actually have been doing some extra-curricular writing … Continue reading
The Return on Empathy (ROE)
I was doing some file clean-up recently and dug up this presentation I gave last year. It compiles a lot of my high-level thinking on the power of empathy in a business … Continue reading
The Onion’s 13 best ever marketing & advertising headlines
If there’s anyone who takes headlines as seriously as advertisers do, it’s The Onion. An episode of This American Life a few years back offers a fantastic glimpse behind the … Continue reading
Twitter/ long on live
There’s a massive sell-off happening following Twitter’s quarterly results announcement yesterday. In my view, this is just another example of the market’s short-sightedness. With the coming Winter Olympics and more … Continue reading
The Brand Innovation 2×2
Here’s a quick 2 by 2 I built to help kick off client engagements and hyper-simplify our philosophy on brand work. If you’re a brand owner today it’s a good … Continue reading
Think Outside The Pyramid
A Brand Rant Enough love. Enough living. Enough life. Enough fulfillment. Enough potential. Yes, people will tell you they like these things. They do like these things. Who doesn’t? The … Continue reading
Generational GapCasting
In a lovely example of what I like to call unlikely friendship, Google’s recent Project Re:Brief takes a handful of advertising legends from the Mad Men days and puts them to work … Continue reading
HER NATURE HIS NURTURE 