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The Man (and Book) That Might Actually Change the World
What if the greatest problem in the world was a lack of moral ambition among the best and brightest people? As a recent interview with...
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This Journalist Tried to Make a New Friend in 30 Days and It Went … Badly
What if you set out to make a new friend and gave yourself 30 days to make it happen? That’s the intriguing challenge that forms...
Read Now15 2024 July
Porto and the Importance of City Branding
As I write this, I’m just off the stage here in Portugal at one of the largest business conferences of the year in Europe at...
Read Now20 2020 July
The Truth About Fox News: It Isn’t Fake.
Calling Fox News fake is a common theme among the people in my social media circles, but I have long been curious about their reporting...
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...
Read Now28 2019 February
Digital Undertakers, On-Demand Grandkids And Other Jobs Of The Future
One of the most consistent signs of our shifting future is how quickly new jobs and industries are emerging. Even as some fear technology making...
Read Now28 2019 January
Why We Should Stop Trusting Viral Videos
Last week one of the inescapable stories in the United States was a controversial video showing a group of Catholic students appearing to clash with...
Read Now18 2018 July
Can Hyperlocal Apps Actually Make Us Interact With Our Neighbors?
The idea that neighbors might want the food you won’t eat might seem far fetched depending on where you live. Yet the hyperlocal food sharing app...
Read Now23 2018 April
How To Sue A Robot And What The TED Conference Is Really Like
Should technology be a source for hope or fear? That was the question that seemed to emerge this week as I read several stories offering...
Read Now26 2018 March
Black Mirror Predicting Reality, Coke Uses Blockchain And Spotify Tries To Be The Netflix Of Music
If you are a fan of the Netflix sci-fi series Black Mirror, this was a surreal week. Walmart patented autonomous robot bees (which get hacked to...
Read Now09 2018 February
The Disruption Issue: Norway’s Olympic Curling Pants, Saudi Solar And Soap Fetishes
This week disruption was the theme in multiple stories featuring everything from new ASMR videos, to rocket launches to more than one story warning about...
Read Now02 2017 November
The Ad Council Helps Connect Creative Marketing Pros With Nonprofits
I admit that despite my many years working in marketing and advertising I have never been lucky enough to work on an Ad Council pro...
Read Now16 2017 September
Using Emojis To Encourage Charitable Giving
For years when charitable institutions tried to make giving and participation easier through using digital tools, they were accused of “slacktivism” a term coined to...
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