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by Jon Higgins| January 26, 2017

“Reading is a way to slow down and get perspective. There’s something particular about quieting yourself and having a sustained stretch of time that is different from music or television or even the greatest movies.” He didn’t single me out directly, but when Former President Barak Obama recently said this to the New York Times, […]

by Ann Wool| January 25, 2017

The 1848 discovery of gold in a hitherto sparsely populated part of the world called California sparked one of history’s classic gold rushes. Gold fever brought thousands of migrants to the region, saw entire gold mining ecosystems spring up almost overnight and set California on a new trajectory. Fast-forward 168 years and another type of […]

by Valerie Delva| January 24, 2017

From the annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference to the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, this month kicked off a series of environment-setting and industry-shaping conferences for the year. So like many communications professionals taking a look at the year ahead for clients and their organizations, I made my way through a volume of 2017 […]

by Stephen Waddington| January 6, 2017

It’s that time of year when we reflect on the past 12 months and look ahead. At the end of last year we published Trends 17. It’s a view of the year ahead from subject matter experts and our Mindfire network of entrepreneurial students. I’ve dug deeper into digital and social media, and asked colleagues […]