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 […]
You will probably agree with me that we live between poles. Whether you like them or not, whether they shock you a little or too much, whether they attract you or bore you, life goes inexorably between one pole and the other. [...]
For years I thought I would die young. A few days ago I became aware of the fact that once again I have been wrong. However, as a Nike commercial from years ago says, I may have gray hair and wrinkles but [...]
Year after year and for many years, Del Campo Saatchi Saatchi has surprised us with their ideas, and when it seemed that they could not beat the last one, they come up with an even better one. With “Almost Identical” they already [...]
In a practical simplification, there are two types of countries: those that prosper and those that do not. Apply the concept also to companies, institutions, families and all types of human organizations. Some advance and others stagnate or regress. Encapsulated in this [...]
There is a lot of talk, conversation and advice on how to win a Lion at Cannes. No wonder, because there is more chance of being struck by lightning than winning a Grand Prix. It’s that difficult! From a company’s perspective, there [...]
Three words were repeated most frequently at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity: storytelling, purpose and big-data. In his opening remarks at the Cannes representatives meeting in London this morning, Phil Thomas, CEO of Lion Festivals, provided concepts that clearly set [...]
While on our side of the world, Afros, disco music and mirror balls made young people dream, on the other side of the Atlantic some only dreamed of the freedom of being able to say what they thought, sculpt what they felt [...]
If you haven’t seen this video yet, dedicate 3 minutes to it. It is an excellent example of what not to do… and yet we often do. It explains Apple’s success by itself, with its elegant way of mixing in its design, [...]
When the founders of YouTube, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim started their project, they could not have imagined the revolution that was taking off with their simple idea: to make it easier for people to share videos and do it [...]