Back when Chiat/Day was the undisputed hottest agency in all the land, I used to work with a super smart guy who floored us in a leadership meeting one fine morning by declaring we weren’t in the ad biz anymore. Nope. That day we became purveyors of “persuasion.” We all got excited and a little...

It would be no exaggeration to say that Bill, the man pictured in the middle here, was also at the center of Bob Thomas & Associates, our mighty, incredible agency in Redondo Beach, Calif. Bill was our primary client lead at Nissan - by far our largest client - so for a client-first agency, being...

The past few days I’ve been walking around the neighborhood looking for all the world like the Village Idiot. That’s what you think when you see a guy all by himself, holding his sides, tears of mirth rolling down his face, belly laughing to beat the band. Right? “There goes an idiot in my...

... that's how Western Michigan University president Edward Montgomery described it - a record-setting gift of $550 million, the largest private donation ever made to a public university. We called it "transformational" and were proud, delighted and honored to join the WMU client team and our...

The great Bob Thomas. My first boss, peerless teacher, second father, bestie. For the guy who ignited my career, I'm launching a microblog on Instagram (see lowandbhold) with BT as my inspiration, once again. Big end-of-the-month birthday for this legend!