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Good Leadership Requires a Healthy Ego

I came across a great article this morning from HBR entitled: “Ego Is the Enemy of Good Leadership“. It’s a quick read and definitely worth your time. Kudos to the authors, Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter for their insightful take. If you’ve spent enough time on the planet, chances are you’ve encountered someone in aContinue reading “Good Leadership Requires a Healthy Ego”

Head. In. The. Sand. Part Deux

I am certainly not going to jump on the “bash everything that happened – or didn’t happen – at Cannes this year” bandwagon. That would be way too easy, especially if you simply plagiarize someone else’s words (think you know what I’m sayin’ @sureshdinakaran.) That said, Pam Erlichman, CMO at Jebbit, wrote a great pieceContinue reading “Head. In. The. Sand. Part Deux”

Head. In. The. Sand

Carole Cadwalladr: the ad industry is ignoring Cambridge Analytica fallout. “In terms of responsibility, there’s something really key about Cannes Lions and the ad industry’s involvement in this,” she explained. “This is where the money is coming from. It is kind of depressing that there’s not a single talk happening in this entire week [aboutContinue reading “Head. In. The. Sand”

To Burn Your Ace or Not to Burn Your Ace, That is the Question

For those that know me well, you already know that a good chunk of my free time is spent on a ballfield with my sons. While it’s been said plenty of times already, the parallels between life (and work) and baseball are all over the place. One such parallel is how you manage your bullpen.Continue reading “To Burn Your Ace or Not to Burn Your Ace, That is the Question”

Why Consumer’s Increasing Demand for Online Privacy is Good for Our Business

I have always argued that our industry didn’t do enough, early enough to get ahead of consumer privacy. I wrote a post in February 2014 (seems like forever ago) where I stated in no uncertain terms: “If we continue to keep our collective heads buried in the sand on this issue, we can say goodbyeContinue reading “Why Consumer’s Increasing Demand for Online Privacy is Good for Our Business”

We Better Pay Attention Peeps

According to December 2013 research conducted by Harris Interactive cited today by eMarketer, “more than nine in 10 internet users worry about online privacy. Further, 74% of respondents said they were more concerned about their privacy than they had been a year earlier—a number that was also up since 2013.” And there’s more: “These concernsContinue reading “We Better Pay Attention Peeps”

What Happens If You Share Questionable Moves by Facebook on Facebook?

I sent a tweet last week re: a Fast Company article which brought to light some peculiar permission requests when Facebook users tried to update their app. My Twitter account is linked to my Facebook account. Follow the link on Facebook and… You may not like Fast Company but “malicious?” Not so much. Is thisContinue reading “What Happens If You Share Questionable Moves by Facebook on Facebook?”

When Art & Automobile Meet: Porsche by Design: Seducing Speed

I have had the opportunity to work on some of the biggest, most respected brands in the world. Procter & Gamble, the Quaker Oats Company and NASDAQ to name but a few. And the experience has been great. Really great. But I have to admit that at times I had to dig pretty deeply toContinue reading “When Art & Automobile Meet: Porsche by Design: Seducing Speed”

Pop This Pringles

As a marketer I’ve always been taught that if you ask consumers to do too much, they won’t do it. This is true even if, from the marketer’s perspective, the payoff justifies the effort (oftentimes because the payoff doesn’t come close to justifying the effort from the consumer’s point-of-view.) I think this is clearly theContinue reading “Pop This Pringles”