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Building Trust And Ceding Control: The Lessons Preparing Me For My Third Brain Tumor Operation In…

This week I’ll be undergoing round three of brain surgery. I probably shouldn’t feel as casual as I do about the impending removal of…

Mar 23, 2021

Building Trust And Ceding Control: The Lessons Preparing Me For My Third Brain Tumor Operation In…

Mar 23, 2021

What Two Brain Tumors Have Taught Me About the Future of Care

May marks an important time in my life: It’s Brain Tumor Awareness Month. I’ve always been very open and willing to talk about my two…

May 1, 2020

What Two Brain Tumors Have Taught Me About the Future of Care

May 1, 2020

The New Gap Year? Why the Class of 2020 Needs a Marketing Makeover

I’ve been known to have opinions — plenty of them. But when my 21-year-old niece — a graduating senior from Ithaca College who is spending…

Apr 20, 2020

The New Gap Year? Why the Class of 2020 Needs a Marketing Makeover

Apr 20, 2020

With The Right Leadership, We Can Make This Our Finest Hour

We all know that times of crisis bring out the best — and worst — in humanity, and we’ve certainly witnessed how people are stepping up to…

Apr 15, 2020

With The Right Leadership, We Can Make This Our Finest Hour

Apr 15, 2020

COVID-19 Be Damned: Rituals and Traditions Will Not Be Denied

I don’t really relate to either Passover or Easter, but I find myself thinking of how family and friends will adapt to celebrating the…

Apr 7, 2020

COVID-19 Be Damned: Rituals and Traditions Will Not Be Denied

Apr 7, 2020

COVID-19 Might Just Lead to a New Generation of Social Goodness

The many spontaneous and useful acts of kindness we are seeing as the COVID-19 pandemic continues its spread have been well documented…

Apr 2, 2020

COVID-19 Might Just Lead to a New Generation of Social Goodness

Apr 2, 2020

Balancing Work from Wherever

As I self-isolate after having returned to the U.S. from Switzerland more than a week ago, I’m reminded that it doesn’t matter where we…

Mar 31, 2020

Balancing Work from Wherever

Mar 31, 2020

Danger: Viral Judging Up Ahead

It’s hard to say what makes something surreal finally register as real for people. Consumers are expert at tuning out any noise they don’t…

Mar 20, 2020

Danger: Viral Judging Up Ahead

Mar 20, 2020

Is It Time To Ditch Last-Century Career Paths?

In case you missed the memo, March is Women’s History Month. A special month to pay special tribute to, you know, that pesky special…

Mar 10, 2020

Mar 10, 2020

What Mountaineers Can Teach Marketers

How many of us begin the week feeling like we have an unscalable mountain to climb? But do we ever stop to appreciate how far we’ve come…

Oct 28, 2019

Oct 28, 2019

The ‘Domino’s Effect’: How Netflix Disrupted More Than Just Theaters

The biggest innovations can have more impact than their inventors ever dreamed. I think we can be reasonably certain that Johannes…

Oct 13, 2019

Oct 13, 2019

The Acceleration Illusion: Why We Should Pull Ourselves Out of the Vortex

Time is created by change. Think about it: If you don’t have change, time slows to a crawl; if everything’s changing, time flies. It’s so…

Aug 12, 2019

Aug 12, 2019

We Are Figuring Out What’s Enough in the Age of Too Much

Back in 2003, I was looking for a new moniker that would conjure up an emerging type of cut-above masculinity. A contrast with…

Aug 2, 2019

Aug 2, 2019

Why buzzwords are bad bizmeth*

Nothing is more invigorating than to have one’s mind changed. Louisa May Alcott said as much when she wrote, “I like good strong words…

Jul 17, 2019

Jul 17, 2019

You Can’t Spell ‘Socialism’ Without ‘Social’

In music, clothes and ideas, fashions come, go and disappear. But wait long enough and eventually they come back around again. Most of us…

Apr 30, 2019

Apr 30, 2019

I’ve been trying to get my head around fake news.

From the dim and distant beginnings of Google Trends in 2004 up to October 2016, fake news barely registered as a search term. Then, in…

Apr 1, 2019

Apr 1, 2019

Podcasts Are The Medium, What’s The Message?

Reading has always been my thing. I’m a self-confessed information junkie and wildly indiscriminate in what I read. Brain-busting…

Mar 20, 2019

Mar 20, 2019

The Way We Were: Iconic Women In The Age Of TV

The visionary poet William Blake believed that we understand our relationship with the world in two ways. One is through the reality we…

Feb 26, 2019

Feb 26, 2019

Trump Trend: Is Twitter the New Reality TV?

Whether you see it as the weaponization of tweets or the modernization of the bully pulpit, there is no denying that Donald Trump’s love…

Feb 10, 2017

Feb 10, 2017

Agile PR: Smarter Communications in a World on Fast Forward

Stop for a moment — I know most of us don’t have much longer than that to spare — and ask yourself: Is there even a single part of your…

Jan 24, 2017

Jan 24, 2017

Marian Salzman

Marian Salzman

SVP Global Communications at Philip Morris International — award-winning PR and marketing professional, author and trendspotter — popularized “metrosexual.”

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