For anyone who has ever seen the classic film The Graduate, there is one image that never leaves you: Dustin Hoffman pounding on the glass of a church during a wedding. He wasn’t on the guest list. He wasn’t there to toast the happy couple. He was there because that room contained the one person…
Kai Ryssdal, host of Marketplace — one of my favorite programs — got stopped by a number. On a recent episode, Ryssdal and Wall Street Journal reporter Ben Fritz discussed Fritz’s article, “The $50 Movie Ticket Has Arrived.” The example was Regal charging $50 for advance seats to Dune: Part Three in 70mm IMAX —…
ANNOUNCEMENT My book Acts of Humanity: The Power of Purposeful Events will be released in August 2026. Pre-release orders are open now at your favorite bookseller (links here) or at www.actsofhumanitythebook.com. (There is even a Limited Edition available from the web site.) Overview:Human beings are not just social creatures—we are relational creatures. Events – large…
LinkedIn recently noted that job postings mentioning “storytellers” have doubled over the last year. Around the same time, its 2026 skills analysis for media and communications listed “Brand Storytelling” among the fastest-growing skills in that field. That is interesting not because storytelling is suddenly new, but because organizations are now naming it more directly. …
Recent coverage highlighted a Barbie-themed immersive experience in Florida where families arrived to find something very different from what had been advertised. Reporting from the BBC and others focused less on any single misstep and more on the difference between what people expected and what they encountered once they got there.
