by Bruce Turkel | Jan 12, 2021 | All About Them, Branding, Building Brand Value, Is That All There Is?, Leadership
You probably know Matt Groening as the wildly successful creator of The Simpsons. The show is the longest-running primetime series in US and has won 32 Emmy Awards, ten in the category of Outstanding Animated Program alone. What’s more, its record 636 episodes...
by Bruce Turkel | Jan 5, 2021 | All About Them, Is That All There Is?, Leadership, Uncategorized
The fantastic lead singer and guitar player in our band was relocating to Atlanta. So after about 10 or so years gigging around Miami, our Saturday night show at the Titanic Bar would be our last time together. And at around 1:45 in the morning, the set we were...
by Bruce Turkel | Sep 7, 2020 | All About Them, Branding, Bruce Turkel, Building Brand Value, Is That All There Is?, Marketing & Advertising
Gloria and I were watching some music awards show where Bruno Mars was performing Amy Winehouse’s song Valerie. During the performance, the horn players were doing a little dance when all of a sudden they jumped up and did a coordinated dance move. Of course they did...
by Bruce Turkel | Aug 24, 2020 | All About Them, Branding, Is That All There Is?, Marketing & Advertising
Do you think you’re smarter or more talented than the people around you? More to the point, do you think you’re smarter or more talented than you really are? If so, you’re not alone. The Dunning-Kruger Effect describes a specific cognitive bias that causes people to...
by Bruce Turkel | Aug 18, 2020 | Branding, Is That All There Is?, Marketing & Advertising
There are at least 301 words with 11 or fewer letters in the English language that contain the word SHIP. How do I know? I went to www.WordFind.com, typed in S H I P, and added up the results. Sure, you can probably come up with another one or two – I’m not suggesting...