by Jon Higgins | Jan 30, 2025 | Between Two Meetings
Yesterday afternoon, my buddy EC and I received a message from Sandi with the heartbreaking news that Bill had passed away peacefully just a couple of hours earlier. While it would be entirely accurate to call Bill Pauli our incredibly loyal, long-time client, he was,...
by Jon Higgins | Jan 13, 2025 | Between Two Meetings
If you weren’t there, like Woodstock, I imagine, the summer of 1981 in Los Angeles is impossible to fully appreciate. For months the City of Angels was deliriously captured in the grip of a 20-year-old Mexican lefty, armed with an unhittable screwball and a...
by Jon Higgins | Oct 18, 2022 | Between Two Meetings
Today’s release of Paul Newman’s long-anticipated memoire, “The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man” strikes me as a good occasion to post this essay I wrote a few years ago. Hope you enjoy. “Old age and treachery beats youth and inexperience.” That’s an old saying,...
by Jon Higgins | Sep 9, 2022 | Between Two Meetings
The Queen (Editor’s note: First published March 2008 when I was based in London as Ketchum’s European CEO) __________________ Have you ever seen a ballroom full of nervous grown men and women? I’m talking handwringing, sweat-on-the-upper lip, need to hold a...
by Jon Higgins | May 16, 2022 | Between Two Meetings
My parents used to get one or two phone calls a month from Mr. Lefevre, who would complain in a world-weary voice that I was being too “disruptive” in his high school biology classroom. In J-school at USC, we were taught to challenge, provoke, to never accept anything...
