Month: December 2025

Marketing at the Speed of Culture

December 31, 2025

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Israeli, Leonard A. Schlesinger, Matt Higgins and Ryan Reynolds for Harvard Business Review. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit:…

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Hyper-Digital Marketing: A Book Review by Bob Morris

December 30, 2025

Hyper-Digital Marketing: Six Pillars of Strategic Brand Marketing in an AI-Powered World Vanitha Samination Palgrave  (October 2025) How to cultivate customer attention, resonance, trust, friendship, and engagement in the new marketplace According to Vanitha Saminathan, Hyper Digital Marketing “aims to…

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This Old Man: From the Archives of The New Yorker

December 28, 2025

Here is an excerpt from a classic article written by Roger Angell for The New Yorker, published in 2014. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration…

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Will in the World: A Book Review by Bob Morris

December 26, 2025

Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare Stephen Greenblatt W.W. Norton (2004) An “amzing success story that has resisted explanation”…until now Thus far, I have read and reviewed several dozen biographies of William Shakespeare (1564-1616) and this is by…

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How Willie Nelson Sees America

December 26, 2025

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Alex Abramovich for The New Yorker. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * * When Willie…

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The Lives They Lived: Willie Mays

December 26, 2025

Here´is a  brief excerpt from an especially interesting profile of Willie Mays, written by XXXXX, that appeared in The New York Times Magazine (DATE). To read the complete profile and check out others, please click here. Mays during a game…

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Lawrence Wright on A. J. Liebling’s “The Great State”

December 26, 2025

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Lawrence Wright for The New Yorker. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * * During the…

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Best Wishes

December 24, 2025

Best wishes for a blessed and joyous holiday season…and a healthy as well as happy New Year.   Bob Morris

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“Marty Supreme”’s Megawatt Personality

December 23, 2025

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Richard Brody for The New Yorker. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration by Matthew Kam *…

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The Octopus Organization: A Book Review by Bob Morris

December 22, 2025

The Octopus Organization: A Guide to Thriving in a World of Continuous Transformation Phil Lel-Brun and Ana Werner Harvard Business Review Press (December 2025) “Everything changes, nothing changes.” Heraclitus (c. 500 BC) How can both organizations and individuals thrive “in…

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