. Some nights enter our lives quietly and then stay with us forever—unexpected, unforgettable, and impossible not to smile about when we remember them. In my previous post, I wrote about the launch of The Art of Detachment in Madrid a couple of weeks ago—a magical evening surrounded by extraordinary people, where I had the […]
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 [...]
A Story of Evolution Some 28 years ago, I began what today is known as a startup, loaded with technology, creativity, and dreams, amid the challenges involved in carving our place among 50 advertising agencies. From a room in my parents’ house [...]
An Event You Can’t Ignore In our country, the region and around the world, most professionals are unfamiliar with Cannes Lions. This is either because they do not know that it exists or because they have the wrong idea about what this [...]
Awards to Excellence The International Creativity Festival Cannes Lions is a name that is no longer enough to describe and adequately name this event. That is why, I believe it offers not a double but a triple shot of inspiration, because it [...]
With more than 40,000 entries competing from every creative corner of the globe, the upcoming Cannes Lions festival will be the biggest, most competitive, most attended and most intense in its more than 60-year history. The competition and global gathering that takes [...]
Next Saturday we will have a new Volcano, the eighth to be precise, where 21 companies will be competing with around 500 entries. There will be the agencies that will go for a Volcano or two, as well as those that will [...]
Next week I will have the opportunity to start a new cycle of conferences in universities, to present the story of an evolution. After many years of presenting Lovemarks, in the context of our relationship with Saatchi Saatchi, today we will present [...]
A few days ago we gathered to learn from DDB and its Playbook, a fascinating combination of planning tools to advance in becoming the most influential agency in the region. Here in the photo you will find a good part of the [...]
Without Martin Luther King and his inspirational dream, and visionary dream, Barack Obama might not be the first black president of the world’s most the first black president of the most powerful country in the world. Without dreams and dreams and illusions, [...]
Today I received the link to this video and it really touched me, even though I was raised as a child in the Methodist church. And as I firmly believe that Jesus is who He said He is, I also believe in [...]
Costa Rica’s ruling National Liberation Party presidential candidate Laura Chinchilla gives her victory speech after winning the general election in San José Costa Rica has always been a progressive beacon on Central America’s benighted street: the reliable democracy that makes a point [...]