Thank You, Dr. King

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I sometimes think that it can be difficult for this white Midwestern boy to truly comprehend racism and discrimination, both because I haven’t experienced it personally and because it is so foreign to how I was raised. It is almost otherworldly to me that a person would be persecuted simply because of who they…are. Though I grew up in racially-divided St. Louis, I always thought my birth city made me far more racially accepting. I was a jazz musician and hung around smoky clubs, clinging to Continue Reading

From Worst To First: How The Red Sox Won The World Series

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Several months ago a friend wrote to me and requested an article about stat management, Japan's legendary post-war economic recovery and the 2013 World Series--quite an assignment, eh? I think I managed to pull it off. The result was this article, which appeared in Prosperity On-Line several months ago.  You can read the original here. From Worst To First: How the Red Sox Won The 2013 World Series By Matt Hanses Full disclosure: I am a Cardinals fan. When you’re born and raised in the Continue Reading

Translated Into Russian

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I was contacted a couple months ago by a Russian management consultant who had somehow seen my article on Elon Musk. We got to talking and I was struck by the joie de vivre he exhibited in his life. Besides his work as a consultant specializing in re-engineering business processes for large companies and a full schedule competing in Mediterranean sailing regattas, he also is in charge of public outreach for an association of consultants in Moscow. He had read my article and wanted to know if he Continue Reading

Entrepreneurs: The Rock Stars of the New Millennium

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  Standing center stage wearing his signature black mock turtleneck and jeans, a subtle glint of enthusiasm and mischievous drama in his eye, he was about to drop a bomb and he knew it; he was going to blow the crowd away.  They were going to be floored—totally, completely out of their minds. They wanted big news—were salivating for big news—and he had the biggest news ever.  This was going to create a revolution.  Things would never again be the same. He thoughtfully looked at the crowd Continue Reading

Spies, Drones and the NSA: America’s Branding Problem

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This may be heretical.  It may be offensive.  However, I’m going to talk about America’s civil liberties from a marketing perspective—not whether it is right or wrong. I once read an article where an incident which occurred in a foreign country was discussed in terms of being a PR problem for their leader—not whether it was just or unjust.  I strongly disagreed.  I felt that the core discussion shouldn't be this foreign leader’s PR, but whether the parties involved had been treated according to Continue Reading