by Bruce Turkel | Feb 22, 2015 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Sometime between World War II and The Korean War, private first class Leonard NMI Turkel was returning a truck to the Pensacola Air Force base when he misunderestimated a blind curve and swerved off the road. Although the private was adept at driving trucks from his...
by Bruce Turkel | Feb 15, 2015 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Last Friday’s edition of The New York Times included two stories on the trouble with transparency that few readers probably connected even though the problem affects all of us. One article was about how Brian Williams “misremembered” his flight on a United States...
by Bruce Turkel | Feb 9, 2015 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Brian Williams is toast.Brian Williams is not going to return to NBC Nightly News. He is not going to reenergize his news career. He’s not going to make a comeback. Brian Williams is toast. Williams has promised to get back on the air, saying, “Upon my return I will...
by Bruce Turkel | Feb 2, 2015 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
When I went to elementary school on Miami Beach there were just four or five African-American kids in our group. I remember this only because I found out later that there were very few black families living on South Beach and the kids in our class were the children of...
by Bruce Turkel | Jan 20, 2015 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
The Folly of Function:We were about eighteen minutes into our morning run when Jen’s running watch and my running watch both started beeping. “That’s two miles.” I said between gasps for air. “Reassuring that the two GPS watches measured our distance exactly the...
by Bruce Turkel | Jan 13, 2015 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Q: When is the best time to plant an oak tree? A: Twenty years ago. Or today. Happy New Year! 2015 is a brand new year and we’re right in the middle of New Year’s resolution month. That means not enough time has gone by to break the resolutions you’ve already made and...