So we sit here today in a heap of mess. No jobs, a tsunami of home foreclosures, a mountain of debt, an almost insolvent Medicare and Social Security system, a broken financial system, the government printing way too much money and corporate America ground to a halt. And for my little industry, agencies bleeding red, [...]
Okay, it’s been a while. I haven’t posted in months. It’s not for a lack of thought, but rather wanting to make sure that what I think (and share) is actually of relevance. And that’s the topic for today. Relevance. A few weeks back I saw an old movie called “He’s Just Not That Into [...]
We all aspire to be one. A monopoly. The only game in town. Proprietary this, trade markable that. Product developers and business people all over the world are working their assets off to come up with the next best thing, the thing that is wholly different, that offers tangible distinction that the competition just can’t [...]
Spoke recently at Harvard, ostensibly about marketing and brand strategy. Mid-presentation it dawned on me. That all the lessons of life, about everything from how to forge long lasting relationships to how to create a viable new product could be captured in one simple truth: you will accomplish more, faster if you look at the [...]
MIT’s Festival for Art Science and Technology will culminate on May 7th and 8th with FAST Light, a series of innovative site specific installations around the MIT campus and along the Charles River. Installations by MIT Department of Architecture Head, Nader Tehrani (founder and principal of Office d’A and of the newly formed NADAAA), Professor…