What I Learned At CES.

Last week I exhausted my brain, my legs, and my wallet wandering through the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. CES is where companies from around the world gather to show each other their latest and greatest inventions and innovations. Vegas is where they...

The Trouble With Tautology

Do you know what the word “tautology” means? Wikipedia says: Tautology: using different words to say the same thing, or a series of self-reinforcing statements that cannot be disproved because they depend on the assumption that they are already correct. Good examples...

Your Brand Is Not About You.

Seven or eight years ago I found myself running into the same predicament over and over again. Our advertising agency would present our branding and marketing concepts to our clients and they would want objective assurances that our ideas would work. Although we were...

The Three “E”s of Successful Public Speaking

How many times have you attended a speech and decided whether the speaker was worth listening to within the first few minutes of their pitch? Often they hadn’t even gotten deep enough into their presentation to present metrics worth judging but you’d already made your...

They Shouldn’t Not Come

Remember the scene in the movie Poltergeist when the worried parents came home to find their young daughter staring at a TV screen of static? The spooky little girl turned around and announced to her terrified folks, “They’re here.” I felt that way when I saw the...
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