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 […]
The Young Lions shot up blog visits to a record high for any month in the past. Today, May 1st, Happy Labor Day to all.
Below you will find the winning pieces of the 8 finalists in the Young Lions sponsored by La Nación and organized by ASCAP, official representative of the Cannes Lions International Festival. Daniel Arroyo Guevara / Jorge Delgado Jiménez Humberto Ling Romaguera / [...]
In Costa Rica there are only 8 couples left competing to be the representatives of Costa Rica in the Young Lions sponsored by La Nación, Print category, in the next Festival. Their names are, in no particular order: Daniel Arroyo Guevara and [...]
From Knowledge @ Wharton. Kevin Roberts has been CEO Worldwide of Saatchi Saatchi since 1997, and in the space of 11 years has cemented the ad agency’s reputation as one of the most successful and creative companies in the industry. Among Saatchi [...]
Attached is a document that I just received from Cannes, with valuable information for the Young Lions competing to represent Costa Rica next June. Click on the attachment and go straight to your computer.
Since last week we have migrated my blog to La Nación, the main media in Costa Rica. Check it out. Periodically we will be uploading the published entries, so that the archive, which to date has more than 1,500 entries, will continue [...]
Nike has done it again, now with a particularly powerful idea: find your greatness. Instead of just applauding sports idols, what if we decided to get moving and start our own? The winning case is on the Cannes Lions site just a [...]
Evian ignites our inner child: While Evian won a Golden Lion at the Cannes Lions last year, I connected a couple of dots and decided to write about the inner child in all of us. Check out the commercial that triggered this [...]
Life-saving creativity! Every year and from all over the world, creative ideas stand out for both their genius and their transformative capacity. Here between one opportunity and another, I want to briefly leave you with two life savers. The first comes from [...]
Values that promote prosperity: 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 [...]
A Fuego Lento: this is my 1,650th blog post, a life experience I have enjoyed since April 2005. In writing I have taken my mind to the gym, propelled by the energy of my fingertips on the keyboard, and with each exercise [...]