What should Whole Foods do?

Yesterday, Whole Foods had a bad day. It reported third-quarter profits of $33.9 million, a 31% decline from the previous year. Sales growth at stores open more than one year slowed to 2.6%, down...

Pictures and storytelling

This remarkable photograph today by Joao Silva of the New York Times is visual storytelling at its best. The eyes of the man in the taupe shirt bore into us. He's protecting another obviously...

It's the niches, stupid

To sponsor, or not to sponsor. Always a gamble, especially in the emerging media world of bloggers and "influencers," a concept of questionable merit. The gossip blog Valleywag, as is its custom,...

10 questions with Tom Fishburne

Tom Fishburne is the Gary Larson of marketing: He creates cartoons that lampoon the often-ridiculous nature of business processes and marketing. His inspiration is his work as a marketer at companies...

Have an important problem to solve

In researching the science of how things replicate and spread, I've spent time time catching up with the work of Dr. James Watson who, with Francis Crick, discovered the structure of DNA in 1955,...