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 […]
Tribu in Honduras and El Salvador. Last week I was for the first time at Tribu DDB San Pedro Sula, where we made a high voltage personal connection, got stuck on several ideas and managed to initiate a close relationship. I loved [...]
More candidates than ideas. Today Costa Rica is the scene of a spectacular 3D caricature drawn by the politicians of the moment. Between handshakes and hugs, they join in alliances of all kinds and colors to achieve power, without prioritizing proposals or [...]
Cannes Chimera is possibly one of the most unknown great ideas of the moment. It has just been re-presented at the annual Cannes Representatives meeting in London, so I can’t help but share it with you right away. Here is a video [...]
Jesse Dee has once again produced his classic collection of the best slides from the last Cannes International Film Festival 2102. Here they are: 100+ Beautiful Slides From Cannes Lions 2012 from Jesse Desjardins – @jessedee
Referendum for governance. In a letter by José María Figueres to the country, sent first to President Laura Chinchilla, the most influential figure of the Costa Rican Way proposes a referendum for reforms that would initiate the recovery of a good dose [...]
La Vía Costarricense is our country project, of those of us who live in Costa Rica and want it to be powerful, prosperous and exemplary. For this reason, without neglecting a single one of the other issues on the table, thanks to [...]
Today we finally received the signal we were waiting for: it’s official. Movistar, our new big client has chosen us to be their creative partner in Costa Rica for an unprecedented launch in the country. Although until just a few weeks ago… [...]
Last night the results of Young Lions were announced, the creative duos that will represent our country in Cannes in the categories of Cyber, Print and Film. They were chosen by a jury made up of 19 renowned colleagues and friends of [...]
It is with great joy that I share with you some happy news: Costa Rica’s participation in Cannes is the largest in our short and successful history at Cannes Lions. With 58 entries for the country, the participating agencies will try to [...]
In this third entry regarding our advertising industry in Costa Rica, I bring to your screen a first and very simple proposal: let’s celebrate all the differences and since it is better to do it in a single forum, let’s coincide in [...]
At Incae I was taught a definition of strategy that I love. Strategy is about choices, about sacrificial decisions and about deliberately choosing to be different, as proposed by Michael Porter. Strategy is also about knowing clearly when to say no. Success [...]
In the twenty-something years of Tribu (formerly Consumer Publicidad), we didn’t always celebrate like we do now. We all know it and yet, we easily forget it. When we lost in a Pregonero or a Volcán, when we thought we were going [...]
