One of the best ideas to come to our world in a long time comes courtesy of Shai Agassi and his American-Israeli company, Better Place. He realized that instead of worrying about the manufacturing of electric cars, he could accelerate their acceptance if he focused on the infrastructure network. And he created a model for [...]
So, your challenge is to come up with a compelling video that people will forward virally to each other, something funny, or sad, or powerful which will provoke people to share with others. Your problem is that the product you want to promote is a door knob lock! How do you make that funny? Before [...]
A Message in A Bottle from An Iraqi Kid: Here is a remarkable example of hope, grassroots activism, and simple excellence in marketing thought!
Stefan Sagmeister, who created the OneVoice Logo for us, just mailed me a banana as an invitation for an event to unveil his latest book…
Worth visiting the home page of this Dutch Department store… …give it a few seconds to see what happens… VERY CREATIVE: http://producten.hema.nl/
A revolution inside the human brain is taking place far beyond our capacity to understand. What we call "A.D.D." or attention-deficit-disorder will become the norm rather than the exception, if it hasn’t already. Our brains used to de-construct and decompress during leisurely walks between work and home, but if you see people walking nowadays, odds [...]
My friend Martin Varsavsky wrote an insightful note on the dangers of credit abuse, on America’s over-reliance on credit to shore up the global economy, and the lessons that we can draw from Argentina’s experience. For years I have been anxious about the excesses of consumerism in America, for both their economic and social implications. [...]
At an event in Washington DC earlier in the week hosted by the Aspen Institute to launch the US-Palestinian Economic and Educational Public-Private Partnership, US Secretary of State Rice highlighted the role the private sector needs to play to help bring an Israeli-Palestinian agreement about. Here is a question I asked her and her response, [...]
Earlier this week I rode on my first hybrid taxi in NYC and was ecstatic for a few reasons. First because this environmental victory for all of us is the work of my friend Jack Hidary, who for years lobbied the NY State and City governments to reverse policies that actually prevented hybrids in the [...]
For those that can read Spanish, below is an excerpt from an article by Leo Zuckerman, an excellent Mexican columnist (who happens to be married to the smart cousin in the family . For those that can’t read Spanish, just a quick synopsis: The Iranian regime is not content with suppressing their own people, or [...]