The EU is struggling to balance its green policies with the exigencies of feeding its citizens and keeping them warm. Isn’t it strange that no big company admits to such difficult choices?
Accounting giant Ernst & Young (“EY”) is reportedly close to splitting its audit and consulting functions into two separate companies. It could change how the industry functions, though I’m not [...]
NASA is sending an experimental, highly innovative, totally risky rocket to circle the Moon later this month that could change the course of history. And nobody cares. NASA has been breaking my [...]
Putting a happy face on the sometimes ugly side of transformative change is more about communications and appearances than it is about strategy. Here’s a take on the leadership change at VW.
News that the Kellogg Company (it operates as “Kellogg’s”) will separate into three companies is bad news. It’s also kinda sad. The press release used typical PR bombast [...]
It’s a great distraction from the realities of the online surveillance economy and how it’s scrapping our actions and from that extrapolating our intentions, all the better to manage the latter [...]
I promised myself at the start of this year that I’d forego writing about the ethics and mechanics of communications, but today’s newspaper forced me to make an exception: After getting accused [...]
Sasha Baron Cohen’s fictional character Borat is a lout from Kazakhstan who says “very nice!” after saying and doing not-so-nice things. The real Kazakhstan has embraced it, and I think it’s a [...]
Former Apple design guru Jony Ive is working with Airbnb to “design new products” prior to its upcoming IPO. Last week’s story was covered extensively across mainstream and tech media. What’s the [...]
A few weeks ago, Estee Lauder sent 10 bottles of Advanced Night Repair lotion to a photo shoot on the International Space Station (“ISS”), if all went accordingly to plan, and the [...]
