UNCONVENTIONAL THINKING BLOG

For business people determined to make a difference in life, the competition is not the competition.

Time is.

As Steve Jobs rests in hiding seeking to recover from what must be a life threatening illness, he knows the only real threat to his ability to build on this extraordinary triumphs, is mortality. Put bluntly, that his time may be up.

Every year, young people make a pilgrimage to MSCO in search of a career in marketing. When we ask them why they are interested in making marketing their life’s work, they respond in a flash:
“I want to do something creative.”
That’s when I launch into a sermon they neither want nor expected. The point of which [...]

Indelible is a word we don’t use much anymore. But we should. In business and in life in general, it has a power and a permanence that presides over the buzz words and concepts of the moment that roll in and out like the waves at Coney Island. (Which, if you have ever been there, you know is indelible.)

There is a strange, perplexing and mysterious math to life.
Think of it as lifematics.
We can begin with the fact that virtually all human life has a span of one to one hundred years. Some live for seconds, others a century. But we are all enclosed within a mathematical box that begins and ends within a [...]

There’s a part of all of us that wants, that demands, to be rooted in reality. To see what we are asked to believe in and to have empirical evidence of its existence.
Makes sense.
No it doesn’t.
You’ve never seen relativity, E=MC2, but you believe in it. You have never set eyes on it, you have little [...]