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 […]
Today I walked into a meeting at Comunicación Corporativa / Ketchum and found 5 Volcanes at the reception desk. That’s right, not one, not two, not three but five awards collected at last Saturday’s Volcano Festival. This is the case that even [...]
At about 15 minutes before midnight, we celebrated in Tribu the 4th consecutive Volcano for Agency of the Year. After a demanding and not at all complacent awarding, this year’s jury distributed prizes among several companies, although once again we scored enough [...]
We all want success and fame. We want to be admired, respected and even applauded. Right? On a Volcano, in Cannes, Hollywood or in a public square, on stage or at home. Yet, when someone asks: Who has achieved real success, few [...]
Since Volcano hasn’t happened yet, I don’t have much new to tell you. What I can think is that it will be the prelude to a pitched battle next year for several reasons. If we consider this week’s competition, we could expect [...]
“Start at the end and work your way back to the beginning” is Andrew Stanton’s summary of storytelling. With English subtitles, I think you will want to apply his ideas every time you are going to speak in public, give a presentation, [...]
The COMUNIDAD de Empresas de Comunicación Comercial de Costa Rica presents the Pellizco y su Volcán. It is the local championship of advertising and commercial creativity, as the first Central American stage in the direction of the world. For sure we will [...]
If you are 28 years old or younger, you are creative, you want to emerge and you are not afraid of competition, you have until Monday to sign up for the Costa Rican contest to enter the global competition that will be [...]
About 12 years ago I got to know Ingo Maurer, a creative, innovative and groundbreaking German designer of… lamps! And then, so in the very first line I would deserve a slap for ignorance, because Ingo is a brilliant architect of light, [...]
I am not a theologian nor do I presume sufficient biblical knowledge to explain anything. However, in the Bible we find truth after truth, age-old wisdom and teachings that can make all the difference in our lives. In fact, as the compendium [...]
The importance of body language. A few days ago I received a message saying: “Hi Jorge, I came in to see your links. In “about me“, the picture you have according to the “body language” (see TED, Amy Cuddy’s talk) reflects a [...]
Moisés Naím has published a new book:“The End of Power“. He argues that power is not only being diluted and changing course, but that it is in decline. As his cover says, not only from the highest echelons of political power, but [...]
Maybe you have already seen this video. Although if you haven’t, please, please don’t miss it, even though I have a different point of view. Often “doing what I like” is not necessarily what suits me, as it tends to lead us [...]
