Have a Heart

This is the first in a series of 10 posts about different aspects of CEO branding. “If Acme Widgets Corporation were a person, what sort of person would it be? How would you describe the looks, the personality and the style of that person?” Anyone who has attended consumer focus groups has probably heard variations [...]
Jul 16, 2012 | Categories:Brands, CSR, Features, PR | Tags: business leaders, CEO branding, CEOs, connection, conscience, consumers, corporate social responsibility, corporations, CSR, David Jones, Enron, Euro RSCG Worldwide, focus groups, happiness, market research, One Young World, perception, recession, Supreme Court, Tony Hsieh, transparency, Tyco, Who Cares Wins, WorldCom, Zappos | Leave A Comment »
Trendspotting: The Halo Effect
Google recently announced a donation of a not-too-shabby $100 million to education initiatives and other causes this year. And the global behemoth is not alone in its jaw-dropping good-heartedness; in spite of an idling economy, 72 percent of companies now have formal corporate responsibility programs. That’s up 10 percent from last year. And it’s starting [...]
Jan 18, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, CSR, Social Media, Technology, Trends | Tags: cause, CEOs, corporate social responsibility, corporations, CSR, David Jones, Google, not-for-profit, philanthropy, Power of Thai, Thailand, Who Cares Wins | Leave A Comment »
Corporations: Pillars of the Community?

Originally posted on the Huffington Post. There’s a real paradox today in the meaning of the word community. On one hand, we’re building our communities online and forming tribes with like-minded, digital folks who share our likes and dislikes, our restaurant recommendations and, in the case of places like Egypt, our desire for democracy. But [...]
Jun 08, 2011 | Categories:CSR, Features, Insights, Media, Trends | Tags: Andy Warhol, Austin, B2B, big business, Cambridge, Carnegie Mellon, Chicago, community, corporations, cost of living, creative class, CSR, democracy, digital, doing good, entrepreneurs, euro rscg, finance, Foursquare, government, high tech, hyperlocal, India, journalism, local, Los Angeles, Main Street, Media, microtarget, millennials, New York City, outsourcing, Patch, Pittsburgh, Richard Florida, Stamford, the arts | Leave A Comment »
Reinvention, Part II

This is the seventh in a series of 12 posts expounding on the 2011 forecasts in the annual trends report from Salzman, president of Euro RSCG Worldwide PR and an internationally respected trendspotter. “There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile” is a nursery rhyme but could well be the leitmotif of [...]
Dec 07, 2010 | Categories:Advertising, CSR, Features, Trends | Tags: anger, Anna Nicole Smith, bankruptcy, Bernard Madoff, BP, branding, Brands, celebrities, Chelsea Handler, climate change, Coca-Cola, corporate social responsibility, corporations, CSR, Dow Chemical, Felipe Calderón, FEMSA, hydrofluorocarbons, innovators, Lindsay Lohan, Marilyn Monroe, Michael Jackson, microfinance, PepsiCo, reinvention, second chances, social entrepreneurship, social value, spokespeople, The New York Times, Tiger Woods, Tony Hayward, Tony Soprano, Trends, trendspotter, trendspotting, trust, U.N., Unilever, Wal-Mart | 3 Comments »




