02 2024 December
The Non-Obvious 2024 Holiday Gift Guide: Ideas 1 – 3
This week in my blog posts, I’m following an annual tradition of sharing some ideas for non-obvious gifts this holiday season. These are a combination...
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26 2020 May
How To Conquer Loneliness and Isolation While Working Remotely
Last week I attended a virtual book launch event hosted by a DC-based networking group called Cadre where former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy spoke about his new book...
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22 2020 May
The Non-Obvious Insights Show – Episode #218
It’s been a busy week with my last night’s inaugural edition of my new Non-Obvious Virtual Summit which focused on the Future of Learning (watch the replay...
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15 2020 May
Non-Obvious Insights Show – Episode #217
There is a little bit of everything in this week’s email, from robotic dogs enforcing social distancing to jazz hands replacing handshakes. Last week I...
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14 2020 May
The Non-Obvious Insights Show – Episode #216
After writing my weekly email newsletter for just over four years, one of the questions I’m most often asked about is the stories that didn’t...
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27 2020 April
What I Learned From Doing 15 Virtual Keynotes In 21 Days
Six weeks ago every event got cancelled, postponed or moved to virtual. Like many professional speakers, I started delivering my talks virtually. But taking a...
Read Now30 2020 March
10 Futuristic Ideas Becoming Reality Faster Because Of COVID-19
For the past ten years I’ve been a collector of innovative ideas. When I write about them and interview the people behind them, I know...
Read Now06 2020 March
5 Reasons Virtual Meetings Suck (And 5 Ways To Fix Them)
With the concerns about a global health pandemic, the necessity of shifting more events and meetings to be virtual is on everyone’s mind. There’s only...
Read Now12 2020 February
What You Can Learn From 50 Top Futurists About The World To Come
Exactly fifty years ago, noted futurist Alvin Toffler wrote one of the most widely read books about the future called Future Shock. It was a legendary...
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The Best & Worst Of 2020 Super Bowl Marketing Strategy
Can a Super Bowl ad that costs nearly $6 million be worth it? That’s a question worth debating if you’re in marketing, so let’s take...
Read Now17 2020 January
Ten Stories About Non-Obvious Megatrends You Should Read
Earlier this week I sent the 200th edition of my weekly Non-Obvious Insights email and my book Non-Obvious Megatrends just launched on Tuesday so there is lots...
Read Now02 2020 January
2020 Will Be The Year Of Bullsh*t. Here’s How To Survive …
This past weekend the Sunday Review from the New York Times declared the past ten years as the “Decade of Mistrust” and suggested that “Americans learned that...
Read Now26 2019 December
5 Non-Obvious Megatrends Changing Our World In 2020
For the past ten years I have gone through an annual ritual of publishing a book about trends that describe our shifting culture and business...
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