2025 has been a year of contrasts—intense, emotional, transformative. It began with a heartfelt farewell and ends with my soul wide open after the magical, peaceful family moments we usually share in Escondida. In between, there was laughter under a sky full of fireflies outside Kuala Lumpur with my grandson Mauricio; a spiritual retreat in […]
If you haven’t seen this video yet, dedicate 3 minutes to it. It is an excellent example of what not to do… and yet we often do. It explains Apple’s success by itself, with its elegant way of mixing in its design, [...]
When the founders of YouTube, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim started their project, they could not have imagined the revolution that was taking off with their simple idea: to make it easier for people to share videos and do it [...]
Can you imagine if instead of“I have a dream“, Martin Luther King had said “I have an objective”? Can you imagine the impact if he had said “I have a proposal”, or “I have data that…”, or “I have a plan…”? You [...]
With one hand on the checkbook and the other hand on the heart, I believe that there are too serious and visible threats to our advertising activity to add depth to our own weaknesses. Yesterday I was in a meeting where my [...]
Advertising agencies are solely responsible for the proliferation of workshops, in-houses and free-lancers. As long as we continue to focus on making quick and cheap ads, we will not be making any difference and we will continue to perpetuate ourselves as just [...]
It’s hard to find a business category that doesn’t have most of its members… pants down. With discounts, offers, returns, or the worst of all, with the lowest price, many try to compete and win. Advertising is no exception and because of [...]
