Brand yourself! (or others will do it for you!)

Now more than ever, you need a personal brand.More and more, our world is becoming automatic, transactional, and impersonal. In business, a human founder’s name on the door now yields to Acme, Initech, and Globex. Too many company brands look and sound like carbon copies of one another. It’s as […] keep reading

Personal Branding: when your company brand is you

What do you really buy when purchasing a product or service?When you engage with a brand, you are essentially “buying” one or more of your own values embedded in the offering. For example, you may purchase FedEx’s shipping service, but what you are really “buying,” among other things, is the […] keep reading

The cost of confusion: drug pricing in TV ads

Just when we thought we couldn’t further complicate the debate on healthcare policy in America any further, the government is preparing to amplify its voice to a level previously unattained. According to the New York Times, the White House is reviewing the text of a final rule to impose listing drug […] keep reading

America hurts: an opioid nation in pain

This week, the New York Times reported on the sordid background of how the Sackler family, owners of Purdue Pharma and the makers of OxyContin, exerted their ill will on the opportunity to profit off of an opioid crisis they helped bring about. First sell the addiction, and then sell […] keep reading