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I don’t know about you guys, but I’ve been pretty intrigued by the Occupy Wall Street movement as it “went global” last week.  Yeah, a few anti globalization demonstrations caught headlines in the late 90s, but I never thought a movement uniting the middle class left AND the right (at least in theory) against the perils of crony capitalism, corporate greed and political corruption would ever fully get [...]

I was in Atlanta a few months ago and stopped by the MLK, Jr. memorial center briefly.  Today it is really hard to understand why people were treated so poorly just because of skin color.   When you ask people why they didn’t get engaged in the cause to end oppression during the civil rights era, you naturally get a wide range of answers excuses.

No Excuses

In 2011, we have unparalleled access [...]

How often have you forgotten to thank someone?

Like some of you, I have grown accustomed to wearing thick consumer goggles in our service led economy.  While I try to remember to thank the people who serve me every day, sometimes I fall short.  I am busy. I get distracted when I am in “consumer” mode.  So, when a brand helps me to slow down and “smell the roses” I think it’s pretty [...]

11 years ago, I almost fell off of the couch in surprise as I watched Serbians peacefully overthrow Slobodan Milosevic behind a branded student movement called Otpor! (resistance!)

No one really expected a rag tag group of media savvy students wearing branded Otpor! t-shirts to galvanize people & rapidly spread a freedom movement across Serbian society.   Surely this outsider group conducting hilarious anti Milosevic “guerilla-esque marketing stunts” in the street would never [...]

In today’s working world, you just might wake up one day and find yourself in a digitally nomadic sub-culture, mingling with entrepreneurs who work out of high tech back packs instead of high rise offices.

The term digital nomad has been around for quite a while.  Forward thinking authors have prophesied about the totally mobile worker for at least 20+ years.  With mobile technology rapidly advancing & companies becoming more [...]