Cookie-cutter or stand-out? In the days before selfies and raw cut video, people were memorable for a reason. While I’ve had the privilege of meeting and working with a number of celebrities in my career, few top the class exhibited by the late Lauren Bacall. What might that mean for you and your personal...Read More
Sometimes an infographic just sums it up. Original graphic came from Scott Aughtmon (@rampbusinesses) http://www.RecessionSolution.com posted on ContentMarketingInstitute.com Read More
Fresh from his trip to the Farnborough Air Show in England, Indiana Governor Mike Pence delivered a thoughtful “message of hope” for Indiana July 22, touting the emerging possibility of Hoosierland becoming the literal “envy of America.” Indiana has much to celebrate, but also has much to consider....Read More
“Any given day at The MEK Group may involve helping an international medical manufacturing services company expand and capture U.S. market share, developing a premium brand and ad campaign for a communications enterprise, organizing industry leaders and academics to advance a technology region, or...Read More
Do you possess the intellectual, emotional and mental bandwidth to be a leader? Are you a brilliant systems thinker? The corporate culture driver? The executive setting priorities? From my 1980 MBA days at Cal State Los Angeles to multiple seminars and presentations, books and journal articles, I thought...Read More
Back in the 20th century when commercial broadcast television first became viable, media buying and planning to support brand development was simple: you just had to have a seven figure budget. Then you could roadblock commercials on the three available networks (ABC, CBS and NBC), collect your 15% commission...Read More
It’s not fair, but it’s true. Upon meeting a person for the first time, we form a lasting first impression that we will carry with us until a nearly overwhelming amount of counter information leads us to believe otherwise. And it all happens within seven seconds. The saying “You only get one chance...Read More
“We did not develop this medicine [Nexavar] for Indians, we developed it for western patients who can afford it.” These inflammatory words, uttered by Bayer AG Chairman Marijn Dekkers at a Financial Times global pharmaceutical forum last month, have flared into an international firestorm,...Read More
