[Originally posted on Forbes.com.] Reboots are the new New Year’s resolutions. And without question, the second decade of the 21st century will be the era of the reboot. The years from 2000 to 2010 saw cataclysmic shifts in everything from digital communication to the state of the economy to beliefs in American invulnerability. As we [...]
Jan 02, 2013 | Categories:Features, Marketing, Trends | Tags: 4 P's, American life, CastMedic Designs, economy, entrepreneurs, freelance, Havas PR North America, inventor, JayBeau Jones, life-work balance, mind and mood, New Year's resolutions, passion, Personal Branding Idea, place, priorities, profession, purpose, reboot, resolutions, StartupNation | Leave A Comment »
An entrepreneurial spirit runs deep at Havas PR and our parent company, Havas Worldwide, and that is why we chose Venture for America as one of the organizations to which we’re donating time during our 12 Days of Havas. Venture for America is a program for young, talented college graduates to spend two years in [...]
Dec 10, 2012 | Categories:CSR, Features, Media, PR, Youth | Tags: 12 Days of Havas, corporate social responsibility, CSR, Downtown Project, entrepreneurialism, entrepreneurs, Havas PR, Havas Worldwide, Las Vegas, Teach for America, Tony Hsieh, Venture for America, Zappos | 1 Comment »
This is the eighth in a series of 10 posts about different aspects of CEO branding. There’s a lot to be said for a CEO who manages to keep things on track with measured stewardship. Even in good times, when the media are all jazzed up with tales of business derring-do, there’s something heroic about [...]
Jul 25, 2012 | Categories:Brands, Features, PR, Technology, Trends | Tags: ambition, brand traction, branding, business leader, caution, CEO, CEO branding, CEOs, entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship, fear, innovation, opportunity, recession, risk | Leave A Comment »
Originally posted on the Huffington Post. Much ado has been made over the peaks, valleys and general drama associated with big business—but what happens when the business is all in the family and corruption seeps through and threatens the very fiber of its ancestral heritage? There’s certainly no better example these days than everything Murdoch. [...]
Jul 27, 2011 | Categories:Features, Media, Trends | Tags: 20th Century Fox, Adweek, business heirs, daughters, Elisabeth Murdoch, entrepreneurs, family business, fathers, female business owners, Fox News, James Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Michael Wolff, Murdochalypse, Murdochgate, National Association of Women Business Owners, News Corp., News of the World, Parliament, phone hacking, Prudence Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch, Scotland Yard, Standard & Poor's, successor, Today, women business owners | Leave A Comment »
As the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11 approaches, we remember those who died, we try to give voice to the collective emotions we felt then and still carry today, and we consider how the decade since the attacks has shaped us. But it is especially enlightening to realize what it all means to today’s 20-somethings, [...]
Jul 22, 2011 | Categories:Features, Youth | Tags: 20-somethings, 9/11, 9/11 anniversary, Afghanistan, Call of Duty, CNN, college, economy, entrepreneurs, fallen soldiers, Fast Company, gaming, Generation Y, Ground Zero, Iraq, joblessness, Middle East, military, millennials, Navy SEALs, Osama bin Laden, Sept. 11, student loans, terror attacks, the economy, The Wall Street Journal, unemployment, video games, Youth | Leave A Comment »
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 »
Originally posted on the Huffington Post. I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. Value. Okay, that wasn’t exactly how it went. But just as our view of plastics has changed significantly since the era of The Graduate, the American dream of the 1960s—marriage, a family, a house in the suburbs [...]
Jun 02, 2011 | Categories:Features, Insights, Technology, Trends | Tags: American Dream, Bill Gates, college, college education, Dutch universities, entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship, higher education, Maastricht University, Mark Zuckerberg, New York City, online education, online university, open textbooks, Pew Research, science, Social Media, Technology, The Wall Street Journal, U.K. universities, university, university education, University Facts, University of Phoenix, University of Warwick, value | Leave A Comment »
This is the sixth 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. We hear the word “reinventing” applied to systems all the time: reinventing capitalism, reinventing credit options. Reinventing health care, politics, journalism, food, [...]
Dec 06, 2010 | Categories:Features, Health and Wellness, Social Media, Technology, Trends | Tags: airport security, Arizona State University, Barack Obama, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, capitalism, change, Cindy Sherman, credit, Daily Beast, entrepreneurs, Europe, Flint, Health and Wellness, innovators, Ireland, Jewish Museum, journalismf, Madonna, Marc Andreessen, Martin Luther King Jr., Maslow's pyramid, Match.com, Michigan, midlife, mobile photo sharing, mycasting, Netscape, online dating sites, ood, Oprah, optimism, Peace Corps, PicPlz, Politics, recession, recommitment, reflection, refocus, reinvention, resiliency, retirement, Roger Ebert, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Social Media, SoMe, Spain, tech, TED, Trends, trendspotter, trendspotting, U.S., we can, Yes | 3 Comments »
Being new to trendspotting, I felt a little out of place at this year’s WorldFuture 2010 conference, put on by the World Future Society—as if I was the only person not developing some type of artificially intelligent machine in my basement. But I soon realized that there is a lot to learn and understand now [...]
Jul 20, 2010 | Categories:Advertising, Features, Marketing, Social Media, Trends | Tags: academia, Advertising, Africa, artificial intelligence, Asia, climate change, collective wisdom, Dennis Bushnell, economy, education, entrepreneurs, environment, Erica Orange, five-sense simulation, freshwater, Internet, Jared Weiner, Marketing, millennials, NASA, online, otaku, pushing boundaries, Sahara Desert, saltwater technologies, Social Media, trendspotting, tuition, Twitter, virtual world, Wikipedia, World Future Society, WorldFuture 2010 | 1 Comment »
