Category: News
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Formula 1 CMO Michael Williams Be Like
There’s having a martini…and then there’s having a martini with the guy that’s about to bring Formula 1 racing to America. I’m at The Lambs Club in Manhattan, having a drink with Michael Williams, former CMO of the NJ Devils, now the new CMO of Formula 1. Dude just walked me through the plan to bring racing’s…
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Trying Out My New Starbucks Name
Amorpha is a genus of plants in the pea family, Fabaceae. It’s also the name made famous by this SNL skit: Inspired by countless visits to Starbucks in which my name and my friends’ names are mis-transposed onto cups via green or black markers, I set out to test my new “Starbucks Name” in the field. Each time I’m asked for my name…
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Something I Like That’s Not On The Internet
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The World’s First Creative Director
Finding the best creative talent is among the most difficult tasks any leader faces. Most of us only get it right every once in a while. There are lots of reasons why: structure, communication, timing, vibe, process. I often hear colleagues and peers lament the challenge. Where does the best creative talent come from? How do we find it? When I…
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Are We Becoming Nature’s Very Own Cyborgs?
Yeah, your your mom and dad deserve some credit for how much information your brain can jam in, retain and recall — and how fast. The foundation of our ability to process information is indeed genetic. Thankfully for our children, though, despite what they’ve inherited from us, they can do a great deal to build more capacity and brain speed for themselves. Eat…
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Smile: Jimmy Fallon & The Roots Make Us Like Miley Cyrus
Yet again, Jimmy Fallon finds a way to make us smile. And yet again, The Roots do too. But come on, making me like Miley Cyrus again? How’d they do that? This version premiered this morning and is about to spread faster than Miley herself on the internets.
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Yahoo! News Presents: How Millennials Will Change the Workforce
Yahoo! News recently invited me to appear on its live special exploring the future of the U.S workforce. See below for my comments on “sidepreneurs,” the value of a college degree, and the impact of the Millennial generation on life at the office… From Yahoo! News’ intro: By 2020, nearly 50% of the U.S. workforce…
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From My New Interview On The Viacom Blog
I was recently interviewed by the Viacom Blog. There I talk about the power of Viacom innovation, the origin of Scratch, and my gratitude to the friends and colleagues who’ve worked so hard and so brilliantly, side by side with me for the last ten years. We’re a team. Fortune Magazine noticed, and it highlights…
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Big Data: A Room With No Theme
There’s this poem by Timothy Donnelly that helped me think through some of the heavier questions regarding “big data” with which many of us are wrestling. Of course, data isn’t going to “extinguish” the creative fires — that’s a little dramatic. But we are indeed humbled by the struggle to reconcile the tsunami of big…
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Cannes 2013: My Conversation On Creativity With OK Go Lead Singer Damian Kulash
As part of Viacom’s trip to this year’s Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, I sat down for a conversation with Damian Kulash, lead singer of OK Go. Last year, Damian and the band won 7 Cannes Lions, 4 of which were gold. Here’s an excerpt from our chat: Also check out OK Go’s new…