The Ultimate Walmart Effect

A $24/hr wage — even a $15/hr wage — is long overdue. Wages have been held down for, well, decades, really. The reason has to do with what might be called The Walmart Effect. In the 1960s, Sam Walton introduced a business model that was counter to the...

A Brief Take On The Creative Brief

The creative process tends to be seen as an effervescent endeavor, ideas bubbling up from the subconscious and scattered across the wall of a brainstorm room. Brilliance can happen in this way. And we often fall in love with concepts and convince ourselves that this...

The 7 Deadly Virtues of a Great Account Executive

This post is a lift of a presentation made for an agency’s junior accout executive training program over 15 yrs ago. It is shared here as a link from a highly editorialized take on my current concerns re advertising creative posted in LinkedIn. The 7 Deadly...

Gig. Gig. Or Gig?

Regarding the role of Crowdsourcing in The Gig Economy. It can be worthy. As long as one gets the gig because of the gig without being gigged.The Gig Economy. First:Definition courtesy of Sarah Kessler, from her May 2014, FastCompany article Pixel & Dimed,...