Each year, the Cannes Lion International Festival of Creativity brings together thousands of people from nearly 100 countries working in creative communications, entertainment, design and tech to find out where the industry is heading and celebrate the power of creativity as a force for business, for change and for good. As part of the Festival, … Continue reading The Fearless Girl of Wall Street Emerges as Big Winner, and a Little Christmas in July →

The Philadelphia Inquirer had a great story in today's paper about Wallace Peeples, better known as Wallo267 on social media. Peeples has been out of jail for about 150 days, where he had been serving a 20 year sentence for multiple armed robberies. Peeples made the news three years ago when state troopers were conducting … Continue reading From Prison to 60,000 Online Followers →

It's going to happen. At some point, somebody in the world is going to be worth over $1 trillion. That's the number 1 followed by 12 zeros. Forbes just released its annual list of the world's wealthiest individuals, and here are the top six individuals: Bill Gates (Microsoft), $90 billion Jeff Bezos (Amazon), $86 billion … Continue reading Who Will Be the World’s First Trillionaire? →

We've all seen them. TV commercials for prescription drugs that last about 90 seconds, with 75 seconds of the commercial devoted to describing the potential side effects. Here's a clip of a Jeff Foxworthy routine where he captures the over-the-top nature of these commercials. https://youtu.be/eSdNMRtvq5g?t=1m35s But as I was watching one of these commercials on … Continue reading Side Effects of Reading This Blog →

In a previous post, I wrote about a new term I had read about in Adam Grant's best selling book Originals. The term was vuja de, the opposite of deja vu. As Grant explains it, "Deja vu occurs when we encounter something new, but if feels as if we’ve seen it all before. Vuja de is the … Continue reading It’s Vuja De All Over Again →

Maybe I'm a little claustrophobic. Or maybe I find the idea of being stuck in an elevator at my house with nobody around kind of frightening. Or maybe I just like the idea of having an escalator in my house. An escalator seems so much more flexible than an elevator: if the power goes out … Continue reading Why Don’t Houses Have Escalators? →

"And to avoide the tedious repetition of these woordes, is equalle to, I will sette as I doe often in woorke use, a paire of paralleles." Thus were the words of Robert Recorde, a true polymath born in Wales in 1510 who made advances in economics, medicine, theology, and poetry. But his greatest contribution is taught … Continue reading Something You Probably Never Even Thought About →

No, it's not my infamous cat and bunny video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjqkiYKi8x4 It's not James Cagney dancing down the steps of the White House in Yankee Doodle Dandy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlvB4xk4LNQ And it's not this classic video from ESPN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDR1sQr_Lgo&feature=player_embedded Prior to this week, the most watched video was Gangnam Style by Psy, with over 2.8 billion views. However, … Continue reading And the Most Viewed YouTube Video of All Time Is… →

I don't consider myself a big shopper, but for some reason I got caught up in Amazon Prime Day this year. There wasn't anything that I specifically wanted or needed, but it just seemed like with the constant reminders about it in my inbox, my web browser, the nightly news, etc., that there would surely … Continue reading I’ll Admit It, I Fell Victim to the Marketing Genius of Amazon Prime Day →

Seth Godin, my favorite marketing guru and bestselling author, published a book a few years ago titled, "We Are All Weird." Here's a short video of an interview Seth did with the President of High Point University where he discusses what the book was about. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUxtUOz5FL8 When Seth uses the word "weird", he is referring to … Continue reading Seth Godin Was Right, We Are Weird →