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Read Marian's award-winning four-part series from the Huffington Post about the brain (including creativity, collaboration, the information onslaught and the new definition of braininess) here.

February 12, 2013, 9:01 am

Mayor of New York, a Helluva Brand

Originally posted on Forbes.com.

Ed Koch, Rudy Giuliani, Fiorello LaGuardia: The mayors of New York City have long been men with outsize personalities and strong personal brands. Not only have they had one of the most influential, highest-profile platforms in the nation, but they’ve also been strategic about positioning themselves and … [continue reading... ]

December 7, 2010, 5:00 pm

Reinvention, Part II

This is the seventh in a series of 12 posts expounding on the 2011 forecasts in the annual trends report from Salzman, president of Euro RSCG Worldwide PR and an internationally respected trendspotter.

“There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile” is a nursery rhyme but could well be the leitmotif … [continue reading... ]

March 1, 2010, 11:56 am

The Future of Fashion

Originally posted on eurorscgpr.com.

I recently contributed to Fashion Futures 2025, a forward-thinking project that I’m excited about. The initiative, which launched last week, was a call to arms for companies across the global fashion industry to plan for a sustainable future, taking into account the environment and the living conditions of their customers, suppliers and … [continue reading... ]

February 11, 2010, 8:38 pm

Lessons from Legends at One Young World

Originally posted on The Huffington Post.

The inaugural One Young World summit under way this week in London is a next-generation Davos: a gathering of hundreds of future leaders from the world’s 192 countries. All under age 30, they’re bringing youthful energy, passion, optimism and creativity to the most challenging issues facing people around the globe … [continue reading... ]

February 11, 2010, 12:53 pm

Social Media Emerges as Community Glue

Originally posted on The Huffington Post.

The inaugural One Young World summit that concluded on Wednesday in London wasn’t just a gathering of hundreds of tomorrow’s world leaders. Don’t get me wrong: The energy of the more than 600 delegates from 100-plus countries, the passion of their debates and the progress that their resolutions made toward … [continue reading... ]

February 8, 2010, 12:35 pm

Ten Trends of 20-Somethings

Originally posted on The Huffington Post.

With the inaugural One Young World summit kicking off this week in London (my company, Euro RSCG Worldwide, organized it), my thoughts have been focused on the biggest trends among 20-somethings, an increasingly powerful group. In one of my earlier posts, I explained why adults born after 1980 are the … [continue reading... ]

January 3, 2010, 12:11 am

Looking (Back) into the Future

Originally posted on eurorscgpr.com.

In my last post I shared The Futurist magazine’s top trend forecasts for 2010 and beyond. Admittedly, some of it seems a little out-there, from brain-to-brain telepathy to extraterrestrial life.

But one person’s science fiction is another person’s getting to the future first. The Futurist has a compelling track record—its editors have been … [continue reading... ]

January 2, 2010, 9:56 pm

Looking into the Future

Originally posted on eurorscgpr.com.

We’ve just spent the past week counting the days, hours and minutes until we could finally put the last decade behind us, but many of us have been looking toward 2010 for months. This will be a year in which social media continues its reinvention of all facets of global society, and … [continue reading... ]

December 29, 2008, 2:54 pm

We love what’s lost

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Originally posted on pnintelligentdialogue.com.

Technology allows us to fly over continents and communicate with anyone in the world; science has delivered us from many infectious diseases; and the global economy brings almost anything we could ever want or need to our doorstep. Yet many of us want to turn back the clock.

Some of us live with … [continue reading... ]