by Bruce Turkel | Nov 21, 2018 | Branding, Building Brand Value, Keynote speaking
American mythologist Joseph Campbell was best known for his theories on the power of stories and myths. Campbell’s theory of the “monomyth” held that all great myths and stories throughout history are simply variations of one powerful meta-myth. Campbell’s theory was...
by Bruce Turkel | Nov 7, 2018 | Bruce Turkel
If you’ve read this blog for any length of time you know that I periodically write about the meetings I attend. You might also remember that I attend a lot of meetings and that I hate meetings. Of course, the smart question should be why I attend so many meetings if I...
by Bruce Turkel | Oct 17, 2018 | All About Them, Bruce Turkel
The other morning I paged through my Instagram feed and stumbled across a political meme I disagreed with. It was a from a guy I’ll call “Ferrari Frank 345” (FF345). Besides advocating a position clearly counter to my own, FF345’s post was mean-spirited, vulgar, and...
by Bruce Turkel | Oct 3, 2018 | All About Them, Branding, Bruce Turkel
Sometimes a thing looks like both the component parts that make up the thing and a collection of the thing itself. A rock, for example, looks both like a grain of sand and a mountain. Chunks of ice, too, look both like ice crystals and icebergs. Human nature can often...
by Bruce Turkel | Sep 26, 2018 | Bruce Turkel, Building Brand Value
There are a lot of reasons why I don’t ever check my bags when I get on a flight: First, I believe that there are only two kinds of luggage; carry-on and lost. Case in point, Gloria and I attended an over-the-top 50th birthday party in Austria that included a...