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05 2025 June

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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25 2024 July

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...

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15 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...

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20 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...

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26 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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28 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...

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28 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...

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18 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...

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23 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...

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26 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...

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09 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...

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02 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...

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16 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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