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 […]
| View | Upload your own A few weeks ago I came across Rogelio Umaña’s blog with this rich, interesting and valuable Powerpoint document, with ideas and contributions to add to the arsenal of arguments and considerations when working with brands. So [...]
I’ve mentioned it before, and today I can’t stress it enough. Buckingham’s proposal makes sense, is simple and adds up in one direction: put your strengths to work to bring you to your full potential. His series of short films called Trombone [...]
After 97,009 page views on the blog in the month of January, and yesterday with 7,559, we are going to rest but not before leaving you with a commercial for F/Nazca Saatchi, Shake your body, to wish you a happy weekend.
When it comes to a store, a showroom or a supermarket, a branch or a showroom, the projected personality counts as much as the experience itself on its own floor. Sodimac, Ikea or Easy, to cite some recent examples of retail advertising, [...]
I am thrilled to share with you this video of Sirena Huang, the violin child prodigy who at the age of 11 fascinates the whole world with her talent and virtuosity. She began her violin lessons at the age of 4, and [...]
BE, because we all have the opportunity to design and Simplify, Eliminate and Reduce. No matter where simplify overlaps with eliminate or reduce, and thus, it is irrelevant semantics as long as we focus on Simplify, Eliminate and Reduce. BE, it’s just [...]
The predictions for 2016 seem to have ceased at this point in January, so today I found it a life prize to share in the same hotel room in Los Angeles with Ray Kurzweil and hear his. With that particular condition that [...]
I have read with interest many predictions for the year, as if they could really serve to anticipate the future. Among many valuable considerations, in practically all of them I have found the recommendation for prudence in 2016 -and the little angel [...]
You might identify with exploration beyond the imaginable. With the unexpected, the search or the unknown. The accidental, the surprise, the fear and the naive. I am trapped by the community in darkness and liberated by the light, always the light, that [...]
Many times we spend our time complaining about something we don’t like or we simply let it go and settle for “what we have” without realizing that we can change things. This is why I want to share with you these tips [...]
The Birth of an Idea Today, Guatemala is living one of the toughest moments in its history, only a few days away from its upcoming and consequential elections, alongside corruption scandals that implicate President Pérez Molina. The uncovering of a network of [...]
A few days ago I heard from a disgruntled young professional about the imminent sale of his mother’s grocery store where he worked. “I have a life ahead of me,” he argued in opposition to the transaction, because in his view, the [...]
