Thomas Friedman tells the story of a Syrian activist who was stopped at a Syrian Army checkpoint. The activist had a laptop and a thumb drive on the seat next to him. The Syrian soldier examined them. Then he asked the driver: "Do you have a Facebook?" The activist said...

We've heard the generational tales -- some tall, some true -- of the innovative survivors of the Great Depression. They wasted nothing. Necessity was the mother of their invention. Surviving demanded creativity.

If history repeats itself, these economic hard times are forcing our hands once again to be more creative...

The Millennials, who were supposed to be the harbingers of a global interwebbed knowledge-based prosperity, are now inheritors of one of the greatest collapses of collective judgment this century has seen. Are they in denial, in disappointment or simply in disbelief?

Some recent research we've conducted at JWT, part...

They say you can't teach old dogs new tricks. But now that this middle-aged CEO has learned how to stop talking about new media and communications styles and start living them, I'd argue the exact opposite.

For years we've talked about the great democratization of information and power,...

With the benefit of hindsight, we can see that we've been defying gravity for a long time. Probably since the days when Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher lifted our spirits with passionate, well-delivered rhetoric extolling the benefits of deregulation, supply-side economics and the free marketplace.

In the span of...

The longer the global financial crisis drags on, the more layers of complexity become exposed. Who would have thought that people all over the world would so avidly follow a financial drama with an arcane plotline involving subprime mortgages, derivatives, collateralized debt obligations, investment banks, commercial paper, credit default...

Of all the contributions to society that advertising can claim -- and for many people, it's not a long list -- one that's generally ignored is its contribution to tolerance and understanding. I don't mean ads like "It's a Small World After All" and "I'd Like to Buy the World...

As the CEO of the world's fourth largest network of advertising agencies, I've amassed more miles than Condi Rice. And the load isn't getting lighter--these days, JWT has offices in more than 200 countries. I keep a suitcase packed for the overnight hauls that are sometimes well planned and sometimes...

In Thomas Friedman's seminal work The World Is Flat, one of the premises that captured my attention was Friedman's focus and emphasis on education--both in the U.S. and in the rest of the world. It's certainly true that "children are our future"; how they are prepared for that future needs...