All the texts I’ve recently published in The Slow Burn have been born from a desire to share and inspire. I emphasize this because I recognize that it wasn’t always like this. In the past, when I called myself a publicist and entrepreneur, my writing was often driven by a need to build my personal […]
Today The Openhouse Project presented the third video talk of It’s Personal, a series that reminds us how personal it is to achieve a relationship with God. In this video that I include here is the most important fragment for you to [...]
With less than two weeks until my next marathon, these videos are a marvel for motivation as I write with a cold and torn to shreds from an extremely untimely flu. The variables for a marathon, as for almost everything in life, [...]
When you count the years in decades and one or two are no longer enough, it is time to recognize the ball or pineapple, whatever you want to call it, but clearly the amount of time that has accumulated as in my [...]
I spent 10 years of my life at McCann-Erickson, from the first as an advertiser to the last as an employee. Today I have little left of that company, as I have changed and so has McCann. However, the affection and appreciation [...]
Hold a focus group.
I came across on our YouTube channel, TribuTV, this very simple video that we used when we were Consumer and then adapted when we called ourselves Tribu. I was struck by the words chosen years ago, because today they are in the [...]
Painter of Eye-Mo, an idea of Tribu for Glaxo-SmithKline and its product Eye-MO. Creative: Mario Calvo, what a great memory, and to you, Marito, a hug and the honor you deserve for a first-world, innovative and daring idea. This is creativity in [...]
Anybody can make an ad. A brand doesn’t. In Costa Rica, as in the world, there are many people making ads. And of course, people hiring them. Many are those who assume that their brands or products need to advertise to sell, [...]
It’s been a few weeks since Rafael Abreu sent me the link to TED. Today, I am hooked to his TedTalks through iTunes, since all the presentations are available for free on his Podcasts. You can download them to your iPod or [...]
Sir Ken Robinson speaks, from his presentation at TedTalks in Monterey, California, about creativity and the challenge of changing education to value creativity as much as literacy. He identifies the importance of preparing ourselves to be wrong, if we want to be [...]
Photographer Phil Borges estimates that of the 6,000 languages spoken on the planet today, 3,000 are not known by children. In other words, as those who know them die, humanity will lose all the wealth that comes from the legacy of that [...]
USE THE POWER OF TRUST. Forget completely the idea that it is your turn to approve or reject, that this position is a big mistake. If you are going to value ideas, you have to be clear that all have potential, all [...]
