UNCONVENTIONAL THINKING BLOG

Sometimes, the power of marketing is a curse. A plague. A near sin.

Why do I say that?

Can you say the words “Harry Reid?”

There is one perfect person in the world. At least that’s the way Ms. Oprah Winfrey sees it every time she looks in the mirror.

What she may not know is that zillions of us are so overdosed on her that the situation is becoming toxic. Perhaps fatal.

This week I spent a day in Manhattan to take in all the timeless majesty, the silver bells nostalgia that New York–the city of my birth and life–radiates at Christmas time.

I understand New York and it understands me and it’s like the zillion others making the rounds at the sites aren’t really there. It’s me and New York and a friend I was revealing the wonders to.

Life is a series of comings and goings. We are forever moving away from things, people, ideas, we once embraced and moving towards new goals, rainbows, business ventures and relationships.

I often say that it takes two people to create a bureaucracy. It’s not an exaggeration, I see it all the time. Let’s up the number to 20 or 200 people if you feel that’s more accurate. The rule remains the same: Unless you as a manager, a leader, are determined to root out the signs of bureaucracy and its agents, you will be in the grips of one.