How important is your brand to your brand? When I was a kid, I lived in a world of brands. Everything around us was defined through brand affiliation. This was the early 1970s and it was the US of A. The grocery stores were doubling in size, well on their was to becoming today's hypermarkets. [...]
This is a long-overdue review of the iPad, in part because of what can only be described as a massive reluctance on my part to actually touch an iPad. I'm not a big fan of hype. I neither purvey nor consume hype, certainly not in the massive quantities that have surrounded the rounds of iPad [...]
When I was a kid (you know you're in for a rough ride when a blog post begins with something as ominous as "when I was a kid") the average "fast food" meal was 600 calories. That was a burger (or equivalent thereof), fries and a soda. The soda did not arrive in a vat [...]
One of my favourite Dale Carnegie quotes (and there are tons that I love) is: "If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive." I'm going to argue that there are a lot of beehives in the world of business that need to be kicked over. Hard. In business as in life we [...]
This morning at 2am, after wrapping up business in North America, making a couple of Europe calls and watching a college football early game day show, I decided that I needed to put together some content in a deliverable form. Let's call that a "presentation," if you will. Now, having been fully weaned over the [...]
In today's world, where many of us talk about globalization, how does this affect education? The reality is that the classroom has become more diverse than ever, and many schools now place great emphasis on cultural sensitivity. However, is this an active education revolution or the passive effect of sky-rocketing immigration rates that drive and even [...]
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