Shaping Your Personal Brand
Jul 25I recently was invited to speak at EMERGE a conference in Los Angeles organized by my friend Mariano Faget, the publisher of Hispanic Magazine and Hispanic Enterprise. Mariano asked me speak on developing your personal brand. I found the topic interesting and compelled me to examine what I counsel companies to do in shaping their brands. While we all know that brand is the holy grail of...
Have We Become a Post-Racial Society?
Jul 23Few people today would deny that race relations are better today than ever before. Finally, our country has made some significant leaps in understanding and accepting diversity. A recent ABC News survey asked people whether there’s anyone of another race that you consider a close friend. A large number of people said yes. Twenty years ago that response would have been very...
A POV on Black Men
Jul 22There’s no better time for communicators to reflect on the enduring cultural impact, and marketplace significance, of the African-American man. Here are just a few cases in point: The historic presidential candidacy of Sen. Barack Obama has clearly provoked thought and action about the political and economic significance of black America. Sen. Obama’s candidacy is, perhaps, the...