Not long ago, I was helping to scout for a once-in-a-lifetime venue for a client’s VIP customer event in San Diego, ideally using a theme about heroes. After much exploration and effort, we were successful in securing Miramar for the event – yes, the famous “Top Gun” school for naval aviators, now called Marine Corps […]

In his 1879 commencement address to the graduating class of the Michigan Military Academy, Civil War Union General William Tecumseh Sherman famously proclaimed, “War is hell.”  A century later, Nike CEO Phil Knight, an Army veteran himself, compared the two, saying “Business is war without bullets.” Though you cannot seriously equate the horrors of war […]

There is a classic Dilbert cartoon in which, as part of a rotational assignment, Dilbert gets transferred to Marketing.  When he arrives at the Marketing Department, its entrance is framed by massive Doric columns; inside everyone is wearing togas, laughing, and drinking wine from huge, overflowing goblets. Over the entryway is a large banner that […]