by Bruce Turkel | May 28, 2013 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
Have you read about Carnival Cruise Line’s latest woes? Of course you saw the bloated corpse of the Costa Concordia floundering like a beached whale off the coast of Italy, you saw the 2,758 stranded cruisers on the Carnival Triumph eating onion sandwiches and using...
by Bruce Turkel | May 13, 2013 | Branding, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
My father was a passionate proponent of architecture and design. Throughout his career he worked with some of the best in South Florida, including Gail Baldwin and Don Sackman, Roney Mateu, Frank Schulwolf, Jordan Barrett and Murray Gaby, and Manny Abraben. I don’t...
by Bruce Turkel | Apr 15, 2013 | Branding, Bruce Turkel, Keynote speaking
Horses of a different color. More than one way to skin a cat. Pushing an elephant through a keyhole. Why are the metaphors for paradigm shifts all about animals? I don’t know and I don’t really care. What I do care about is implementing and benefiting from this idea...
by Bruce Turkel | Apr 2, 2013 | Branding, Keynote speaking
From The New York Times: “The (Volkswagen) Beetle was a revolutionary car that changed how people thought about mass-market transportation. As dedicated as the Beetle was to simplicity, the (Toyota) Prius is equally focused on fuel economy. Typically, cars that obsess...
by Bruce Turkel | Mar 20, 2013 | Branding, Keynote speaking, Marketing & Advertising
I am sitting in exit row seat 12C and looking out the window at the great Florida prairie. Led Zeppelin’s Heartbreaker is blasting through my ear buds and I’m thinking about the talk I gave last night to The University of Florida Ad Society. My talk was originally...