by Bruce Turkel | Apr 26, 2011 | Uncategorized
Vincent Van Gogh died broken and penniless. He could not monetize his talent. Takashi Murakami figured it out. He makes big money selling cartoonish figures as fine art and licensing his outrageous colors for $5,000 limited edition Louis Vuitton handbags. Murakami is...
by Bruce Turkel | Apr 19, 2011 | Uncategorized
Last Thursday I gave the worst presentation of my life. I wish I were exaggerating for the sake of this blog, but I’m not. I was truly awful. I was showing work I’m proud of and talking about new concepts we’re excited about but I wasn’t scoring any points with the...
by Bruce Turkel | Mar 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
I’ve been lucky enough to meet lots of you at the different conferences and presentations I speak at every year. Because I spend so much time travelling to and from the speeches, I spend an inordinate amount of time on airplanes. Because I don’t like to waste time on...
by Bruce Turkel | Feb 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
Two things caught my eye this week: According to the old adage of journalism, when a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news. In Thursday’s paper there was an article about Kansas City Royals’ pitcher Gil Meeche who retired last week...
by Bruce Turkel | Jan 10, 2011 | Uncategorized
Technology has changed everything. And in last week’s blog post, The Five Rules for Creative Success in 2011, we talked about the five factors we’ll need to deal with in order to manage for results in the brave new world: 1 The Future Started Yesterday – Online...
