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 race for the first lion for Central America is open, and in 2008 the question could be answered: Who hunted the first lion? What agency achieved the first? Who starts the harvest? Gold, silver or bronze? Does the color of [...]
There is much to learn from the elegance and class with which the world’s most famous actors applaud each other. With great dignity and solid attitude, the cameras focus on the winner, not without glancing at those who were competing for that [...]
TRIBU / Saatchi Saatchi won a gold, two silvers and a bronze in the Caribbean, to start 2008 very well in their legitimate quest to be creative winners at festivals as well. For many years we have won as a company and [...]
And Ogilvy Costa Rica the most awarded agency. Brutal! That’s how LatinSpots reads today about the results in the Caribbean 2008, so we’ve started the year off on the right foot and in the right direction, and we’ll have plenty of reason [...]
I highly recommend this book published by Lawrence Harrison and Samuel Huntington, as it helps to understand the reasons why there are countries prone to development, while many of us live in others prone to underdevelopment. Unfortunately for us Latin Americans, we [...]
Yesterday, agencies in the region turned to the lists of Finalists published on the Caribbean site, https://www.festivalcaribe.com/home.asp, to find a significant number of entries from Costa Rica on the short list in the different categories. It seemed to me that Ogilvy Costa [...]
Success is not a gold medal, nor is it a Lion at Cannes, a million Euros or a marathon in a personal best time. Success has become distorted and although it can be achieved on a daily basis, it can generate the [...]
Write a poem. A novel. A short story. Write a song. A blog entry. An original idea. An equation. Writing a tweet. A new element. Writing is a curiosity. I have been days with my fingertips away from the keyboard. My head, [...]
Too often I hear of a crisis of leadership. However, I have never heard anyone talk about a crisis of passivity. Too many people are contemplatively waiting for a solution to their problems by that dishonest means found in the minds and [...]
The future will be a consequence of the decisions we make today. It is not a matter of luck, nor do I believe it is a matter of destiny, the “I hit the jackpot”, I hit the lottery or I was born [...]
Born With Handfuls of Talent Throughout the years I have accumulated a good deal of pain after hearing the excessive repetition of the statement: “I am not creative”. A consequence of our surroundings, our education system, upbringing at home, other variables, or [...]
To Uber or Not to Uber? I’ve only been in the country a few days in the past few weeks, so I’ve observed from a distance the complaints by taxi drivers against Uber. However, I feel it be useless because of the [...]