The headline and photo on the cover of the Jul/Aug 2015 The Atlantic magazine was chilling, which is why I took so long to read it. What it predicts is not the end of work, but the end work as we have historically and currently [...]
The October 16th Globe & Mail Report on Business (online edition) carried an article titled “Beer giants’ merger comes as the industry tries to get its buzz back”. In it, and in the print version of the same story in the weekend edition following, Globe [...]
Trying to understand the relationship between creativity and intelligence has always been intriguing to me. As a young person, I assumed there was a direct relationship and my later interest may be a product of wanting to know how wrong I was. The rabbit hole [...]
In late June of this year, ‘global growth’ consultant Frost & Sullivan published a report on the state of automotive retailing—automotive being a key practice area for the firm. Here are some highlights from the USD 5k study, [1] most of which I needed to translate [...]
There's something clearly wrong with the generally accepted theory that political marketing is different from any other kind of marketing. It isn't. Politicians and political parties are brands, though the party brand is closely related to its leader's brand. Yet for some reason, political parties [...]
You know when a new (-ish) marketing topic gets serious coverage in the general business media, the topic is a fundamental one. The June 27th Globe & Mail Report on Business cover story was titled “How automation is shaking up the advertising industry” [1] and described [...]
