Nearly 30 years ago when I was interviewing for my first PR job, the senior partner at J.D. Power and Associates asked me what the most important thing was that I learned in school. Without much hesitation I responded — “I learned how to learn.” He smiled and I was offered the job later that week.
To this day, I continue to believe that learning how to learn was by far the most...
When Warner Bros.Pictures released its romantic comedy Crazy Rich Asians , Asian-American community leaders were elated. Nearly a quarter of a century had passed since Hollywood Pictures, a division of The Walt Disney Company, released the widely acclaimed full-length feature film The Joy Luck Club with a majority Asian-American cast. Crazy Rich Asians , along with a few other Asian-centric...
Last year, on any given night, more than half a million people in the wealthiest nation on earth had nowhere safe and secure to sleep.
Once an issue primarily confined to our cities’ most disadvantaged neighborhoods and their hardest-luck residents, homelessness can now be found just about everywhere in the United States. It’s one of the biggest — and certainly the most scandalous —...
In traveling to South Africa to cover Nelson Mandela’s historic presidential win (I was an L.A. TV news reporter), I was captured by the warmth of that nation’s culture and people. So I stayed. I soon discovered I held many negative stereotypes about the continent and its peoples, false preconceptions mostly based on Western news reports, books and movies.
What a surprise! Not all...
Not long ago, I started thinking about the brands that mattered most to me as a kid: Levi’s, Cheetos, Toyota, Rossignol. What, I wondered, was their purpose? Why did they exist? What was their North Star?
The more I thought about these questions, the more obvious the answers seemed. Cheetos wanted to sell me cheese-flavored snacks. Levi’s wanted to sell me jeans. Coke wanted to sell...
Our fourth annual survey of the public relations industry, conducted earlier this year, revealed that a majority of global PR professionals predict the next few years will bring dramatic change to the communication industry. Eighty-three percent believe technological innovations will be a powerful driver of that change and most believe not all of it will be good.
As shared in the 2019...
In June 2017, New Scientist magazine published a story about how long it would take for artificial intelligence (AI) to surpass human intelligence. The article was later shared on Twitter through a tweet that read: “AI will be able to beat us at everything by 2060, say experts.”
“Probably closer to 2030 to 2040 in my opinion, 2060 would be a linear extrapolation, but progress is...
If you’re on social media, there’s a chance that at one time or another, a social cause resonated with you. You may have felt closely aligned to it through self-identity, past experiences or maybe it just pulled at your heartstrings because that’s how humanity works.
So, you did what people on social media do: you changed your profile picture, used a trending hashtag, liked, retweeted...