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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.

July 14, 2011, 9:43 pm

On Thumbs-upmanship

Originally posted on the Huffington Post.

I recently spotted a stat on Ad Age about how today’s millennials (68 percent of them) ask friends for their opinion before they try a restaurant.

I’ve done a lot of research on the Y set and know they are very codependent (why do anything solo except perhaps an … [continue reading... ]

June 2, 2011, 9:02 am

Where Is the Value in a Four-Year Education?

Originally published on the Huffington Post.

I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. Value.

Okay, that wasn’t exactly how it went. But just as our view of plastics has changed significantly since the era of The Graduate, the American dream of the 1960s—marriage, a family, a house in the suburbs and hopefully … [continue reading... ]

December 3, 2010, 5:00 pm

Booting Up

This is the fifth 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.

Watch out in 2011 for the return of skin-thickening boot camps to toughen up kids and employees for the rigors of … [continue reading... ]

July 9, 2010, 1:30 pm

How Mycasting Is Reshaping Programming and Creation

It’s a truism that hardly bears repeating that technology and the infinite choices it has fostered have turned the old one-to-many communications model on its head. That’s a fact for advertising, where it’s laughable to imagine businesses being able to survive simply by broadcasting their brand messages to captive audiences. It’s a fact for pop … [continue reading... ]

June 4, 2010, 8:08 pm

BP’s Branding Backfires

Originally posted on The Huffington Post.

For the past 40-plus days, BP’s devastated oil well has been gushing cautionary tales almost as fast as it’s been spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Executives should have listened to engineers who expressed misgivings about drilling technology. Corners should not have been cut. Regulators should have paid more … [continue reading... ]

May 26, 2010, 3:43 pm

Bad News from Europe

Originally posted on eurorscgpr.com.

The European financial headlines have been nothing but bleak: defaults, a $1 trillion bailout, speculation that the euro might disappear, and discontent and strife in countries from Greece to Germany.

The news is definitely not good, but the tone of the media messaging might be making it seem even worse. SmartMoney warned investors … [continue reading... ]

February 5, 2010, 12:20 pm

Why Local Is the New Global

Originally posted on The Huffington Post.

Remember how in the 1990s, everyone was talking about globalization? Protesters railed against the World Trade Organization in Seattle, angry about treatment of Third World workers and homogenization of cultures. Thomas Friedman published The Lexus and the Olive Tree, his best-selling paean to globalization, which argued that wherever Big Macs … [continue reading... ]

February 24, 2009, 2:50 pm

Is the crisis making us smarter and more creative?

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Originally posted on pnintelligentdialogue.com.

Since the World As We Knew It morphed from Dalí painting to disaster movie last year, there has been a subdued but detectable undertone to the ever-present anxiety. Though many people contemplate the future with fear and dread, a few are feeling excited. The stress is stimulating them, and I don’t mean government … [continue reading... ]