by Bruce Turkel | Jun 18, 2010 | Uncategorized
Besides having a problem with their Deepwater Horizon well spewing oil into the Gulf Stream, BP also seems to have a problem with its executives spewing insensitive statements into the media stream. First, embattled BP CEO Tony Hayward told a disbelieving press “I’d...
by Bruce Turkel | Sep 3, 2009 | Uncategorized
Another brilliant blog post by my friend Andrew Jaffee: Motorola is one of America’s proudest brands. Started by the brothers Galvin in Chicago in 1928 as a battery company, it moved to manufacturing car radios, hence the name a combination of “motor” and...
by Bruce Turkel | Aug 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
40 years ago the world watched and listened in amazement as Yasgur’s farm was converted to 600 acres of peace, music, and mud. Having been just a few years too young to have actually gone to Woodstock, I grew up hearing the fuzzy memories of my friends’ older brothers...
by Bruce Turkel | May 5, 2009 | Branding
Used to be that a Cadillac represented the ultimate achievement. Leonard Chess created a music empire by paying his blues and rock & roll stars with Caddys. Presidents were chauffeured in them. Corpses took their final rides in them. The word Cadillac even became...
by Bruce Turkel | Jan 2, 2009 | Uncategorized
VIA Washingto Post A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that thousand of people went...
