Good PR means giving up control, but it doesn't mean abandonning your brands. I have been thinking a lot about the need to control. Pitching a story to a journalist has...
The Travel section of the New York Times April 22 asks "are travel agents back?" After years of declining sales as consumers went online to find their own deals, agents are once...
With one of our most important clients - William Grant & Sons, the legendary distillery - based in Scotland, I take great interest in all things Scottish. Thus it was...
Suddenly storytelling is hot. From our own Grant's True Tales to CBC's "The Story from Here." Even Hollywood is getting in on the act with two blockbuster films about Snow White...
Bullying seems to be pushing everyone's hot buttons these days. The publicity around a rash of suicides by young people who have been tormented by their peers has found deep...
On the eve of both Easter and Passover, I thought it was worth remembering that every once in a while humanity does get things right. Amidst all the killing and the raping,...
The New York Times Sunday Book Review reported on Jonathan Haidt's "The Righteous Mind" (Pantheon Books) which explores the challenge of persuasion. Haidt's goal is to enhance political discourse by encouraging...
Looks like the Ontario government isn't the only one betting on the roulette wheel to bail out government coffers. According to the Economist, the need for revenue has cash-strapped state...
I have a friend who regularly asks why I don't engage more actively politically. "Don't you care?" she rails at me. It isn't that I don't care but that I...