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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.

March 14, 2013, 9:25 pm

What Having a Brain Tumor Can Do for Your Brand

Originally posted on More.com.

For the record, I’m not suggesting that anyone try to give herself a brain tumor. (How would that even be possible? Tape your smartphone to your head? Slather your scalp with parabens?)

But I can’t help thinking about the fact that for a handful of famous, already alluring women, a brain tumor diagnosis … [continue reading... ]

December 20, 2012, 11:46 pm

The Future of Education: Constant Schooling

Originally posted on the Huffington Post.

This is the seventh in a series of 14 posts expanding on Salzman’s forecasts for 2013 in her annual trends report, a program of global communications group Havas Worldwide. This year’s book, What’s Next? What to Expect in 2013, was published on 12/12/12 and is available at … [continue reading... ]

December 7, 2012, 9:00 am

2013 Living: Austerity with Double-Dip Frugality

Originally posted on the Huffington Post.

This is the third in a series of 14 posts expanding on Salzman’s forecasts for 2013 in her annual trends report, a program of global communications group Havas Worldwide. This year’s book, What’s Next? What to Expect in 2013, will be published on 12/12/12 and available at 120MBooks.com. Salzman is … [continue reading... ]

March 21, 2012, 2:54 pm

The New Quarterlife Crisis

Originally posted on the Huffington Post.

Now that the recession has retreated just a bit from American shores, we’re being allowed a better look at its aftermath. To be frank, it’s not pretty, especially for millennials and their parents. Many of the latter co-signed on student loans and must cope with the loss … [continue reading... ]

December 9, 2010, 5:00 pm

Gender Bender

This is the ninth 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.

“The dollies got restless.” This line from an article in Newsweek in March 2010 remembering the landmark 1970 class-action suit that 46 … [continue reading... ]

December 1, 2010, 5:00 pm

Net Gain

This is the third 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’s a loss-of-faith crisis, and it’s as movement-ready as the one that led Jerry Rubin to pen the Yippie manifesto in 1968. That … [continue reading... ]

November 30, 2010, 5:00 pm

Talk to the Hands

This is the second 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.

People are seriously re-evaluating their lives, their work, their play. The question isn’t only “What are you going to do with your time … [continue reading... ]

April 3, 2010, 9:34 am

Why Do Some Celebrities Rise Up?

Originally posted on eurorscgpr.com.

I’m very proud that Euro PR counts Wyclef Jean and his nongovernmental organization, Yéle Haiti, among our clients. I’ve been fortunate to work with him on ongoing communications and when he addressed the delegates at the One Young World conference in London in February. As both a collaborator and an observer, I’m … [continue reading... ]

February 13, 2010, 8:30 pm

The Power of One

Originally posted on The Huffington Post.

There were so many high points of this week’s One Young World summit, which brought nearly 1,000 young people from around the world together in London to address the most challenging issues facing the world today. But if I were asked for one that really stands out, I would say … [continue reading... ]

January 29, 2010, 10:36 am

The Key to Happiness

Originally posted on eurorscgpr.com.

Much has been written about the study published in Science last month that ranked the happiest states in the U.S. Economists Andrew J. Oswald of the University of Warwick in England and Stephen Wu of Hamilton College in New York analyzed data from 1.3 million Americans in all 50 states and the … [continue reading... ]