[This column first appeared at The Sarasota Institute, a 21st century think tank that I co-founded with Phil Kotler, Jason Apollo Voss in 2017. Please visit the site and if you like what you see, please sign-up for email notifications. Thank you!] This is a pretty catchy title isn’t it. Thank you for reading. You […]
The failed merger of Comcast and Time Warner and the probable merger of Charter and Time Warner will be looked back upon as significant events. They mark the end of the cable era of television. In the United States, cable began in the post-WWII years as a way to bring broadcast television to hard to […]
The first ever Face the Future Conference to be held May 4-6, 2015 in Albuquerque, NM. The vision for the Face the Future Conference is to become the premiere conference about the future; the future of everything. All around the world I have had the honor of opening conferences to provide audiences with a high […]
In the past year I have found that framing conversations about certain topics with the context of being of the 20th century or of the 21st century to be clarifying for most people. I have written extensively about humanity being in transition between the Information Age and the Shift Age. Those who have heard me […]
The current media and advertising recession will be more severe and more transformative than any one of the last 80 years. This will be a time when it won’t be just about how far down ad spending goes, but also about what media entities and even business sectors will survive. Historically, advertising recessions have been […]
More than a year ago, I wrote a column about two damaged brands. One damaged brand was the “Made in China” brand and the other was the well respected financial brand of Wall Street. At that time China was dealing with the fact that pet food produced in China was killing pets all over the […]
The past few weeks have not been good ones for products manufactured in China and financial instruments created in the United States. The “Made in China†brand is now an un-trustworthy brand to millions of American consumers. New, mortgage backed debt instruments, highly rated by U.S. bond rating agencies are now being questioned in financial […]
