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 […]
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 [...]
There are people who complicate and entangle everything, go back and forth, change their minds constantly, forget what they say, do not allow things to flow, make processes slow and difficult, lower morale and team performance, and use sarcasm to defend their [...]
. With a black eye appears a lion in this week’s El Financiero in Costa Rica, with the article that covered creative topics with Pablo Del Campo during his week at Tribu. See interview here From February 3-9, we had an intense [...]
“What is truer than truth? The story”, says in English, Isabel Allende, the Chilean novelist of passion and short stories who has captivated us for years with her stories full of love, mystery, intimacy and sensuality. From a TED presentation, this sensational [...]
Bob Isherwood, Saatchi Saatchi’s global creative director, has insisted over the years on the importance of focusing on developing ideas that are bigger than ads. In addition, from his humanistic perspective, he has also been a major contributor to Saatchi’s proposal for [...]
By Rogelio H. Umaña. Guest blogger. Leaving aside the political discussion and the possibility of whether or not this young senator from Chicago will become the next president of the United States, there are several lessons we can learn from “Obamania” as [...]
We could assume a typical position in our country, and convince ourselves that the issue is really one of budgets. We could also say that our ideas are top-notch and that the problem is that clients don’t approve of anything good. We [...]
