Not Just Mad Men

The Miami International University of Art and Design presented a panel discussion on the Golden Age of Advertising as part of a exhibit loaned from the Hartman Center for Sales at Duke University Libraries, Not Just Mad Men. The panel  featured Barry Zaid formerly of...

Better Living Through Sound Bytes.

We were just finishing up our run the other day and my friend, educational consultant David Altshuler, was talking about his son Ellory’s cross-country team. David said he likes cross-country because it’s a sport where you can really prove what you’re capable of...

Knowledge is power. Really?

It’s been almost five weeks since the Deepwater Horizon disaster and barrels of oil continue to pour out of a broken pipe 5,000 feet below the ocean’s surface. “Green” BP is trying to stave off a PR disaster, red-faced politicians are playing to the cameras and people...

Does anyone return phone calls anymore?

Pardon my rant but what is it about people who don’t return phone calls? Over the last few weeks I’ve added a few names to my To Do list — people I need to call to follow up on a meeting or presentation, pitch for new business, check on a proposal. Even someone...

Who owns the AFLAC duck?

My friend Andrew Jaffee writes the kinds of articles that make me wish everyone could read them and that I had written them. I can’t do much about the latter but can at least help with the former by posting his brilliance. You can find more at Andrew’s...
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