My dear friend, Mardy Grothe, often inspires me with his weekly blog, which you can subscribe to at www.drmardy.com. Mardy has spent much of his life collecting and publishing books...
Truly Funny: Question Over the years, quips that make me laugh end up being part of my common responses. I was in my first job in politics when I turned...
Truly Funny: Calculating Fees During the days ad agencies were transforming from commission-based to fee-based compensation, we asked the chairman of our ad agency how he calculated the fees we...
There is no question that we, the people, have spoken. All three branches of government have been won by populist conservatives. The executive, legislative and judicial branch will be led...
Truly Funny: Agency Chairman Another one from my young advertising career…I took great pride in being a “rising star” in our agency. One day when I must have been a...
The best version of the golden rule is: “Treat others as you wish to be treated”. Ideally, that would be the only rule we need. But for real life, which...
Truly Funny: Beach Boy Fans I was an aspiring young ad agency executive, and our shop hired legendary ad man Bill Hesse to help us make new business presentation to...
A spiritual writer I admire, Regina Brett, wrote “play like you mean it” in her recent blog and it got me thinking about rating my own skills for playfulness. Score...
Truly Funny: Father Norm Smith New title for “Joke of the Month” since I’m going to keep doing true stories until I run out of them. Fitting our “playfulness” theme,...
