If I were to start a social media blog today, I would call it simply “Stating The Obvious.” Based on what I still run into on a far too regular basis, the types of topics we would cover would fall along the lines of:1. “Social” is something you are, not just something you do. If yo ...

The problem with assumptions is that they always come with blind spots.The friendlier and human a company is, the more potential for success it will have. This goes back to the theory that the company with the least amount of assholes wins. I think it goes without saying that unfrie ...

Filed under: opinionOriginally posted on The BrandBuilder Blog April 17, 2012.Not long ago, I wrote about what Moneyball‘s Peter Brand called the “epidemic failure to understand what is going on” plaguing the business, marketing and advertising worlds – when it comes to understanding that ...

I finally watched Moneyball over the weekend. I’m not a big baseball fan but it held my interest, partly because it was based on a true story and partly because the movie really wasn’t about baseball at all. It was about old thinking vs. new thinking, about industry politics vs. the heresy of ...