April 13, 2006

Do Buddhist Marketers Talk About Grace?

- Crossroads Dispatches

I met a new friend and fellow marketer yesterday. I presumed he was Buddhist, but he dropped the word grace into our conversation one too many times. "Do Buddhists talk about grace?" "I'm not Buddhist." Oh, of course. I... ›››

Category: Awareness | Clear and Resonant Marketing | Innovators and Creators | Marketing | Start-Ups

April 12, 2006

How Marketing Can Save The World

- Crossroads Dispatches

"The Greatest Story Never Told: How Marketing Could Save the World" is the actual cover theme headline of Ode Magazine this month (issue 32). I literally did a double-take when I saw it tucked neatly in the stand as... ›››

Category: Awareness | Clear and Resonant Marketing | Marketing

April 11, 2006

Via Crucis Grid Blog : Station 6

- Crossroads Dispatches

When I was a little girl, the oldest of three girls, my parents made the mistake of starting to take us to the neighborhood Catholic Church not too long enough after they broke the news that Santa Claus wasn't... ›››

Category: Awareness | Storytelling | Teachable Moments

After Enlightenment, Chop Wood Carry Water

- Crossroads Dispatches

Prajna prods me all day: "Just tell them you crossed off Enlightenment on the life goals list, but making love in the rain is still up for grabs." She's a witty one, that Perfect Wisdom. I'd prefer to simply... ›››

Category: Awareness

April 05, 2006

How To Be In Service of (Your) Art

- Crossroads Dispatches

I don't care for coffee. The aroma's otherworldly - the taste disappoints. I prefer tea. Yet here I sit this moment sipping the Cacophony, an ecstatic blend of organic dark chocolate, a dash of cayenne pepper and espresso, at... ›››

Category: Awareness | Clear and Resonant Marketing | Innovators and Creators | announcements

April 04, 2006

How Do You Step From The Top of a 100-Foot Pole?

- Crossroads Dispatches

I don't reside in a world of competition or pecking orders or ladders of winners and losers but other people sometimes do. I realized that last night at a small group that meets weekly at our house where we... ›››

Category: Awareness | Innovators and Creators | Teachable Moments

March 31, 2006

A Psychedelic Quest into the Beat Heart

- Crossroads Dispatches

"And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice." - 1 Kings 19:12 Simon Wincester in his book about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, A Crack... ›››

20 Amphetamine-Fueled Days

- Crossroads Dispatches

"I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they... ›››

March 21, 2006

Ten-Minute Poem, Really

- Crossroads Dispatches

I saw the greatest minds of my generation destroyed by validation & paying rentthe galleries spit 'this won't sell' can you make it blacker please i nearly disengage from the software salesmanthe voice (isaiah 30:21) cocks my headwhy i... ›››

Category: Awareness | Tsunami | writing

March 17, 2006

Overheard, Two Artists: 'I Cannot Not Do It'

- Crossroads Dispatches

First artist: "I was reluctant to put my work out there in public because growing up my father would imply, 'Who do you think you are?', 'Who gave you permission?'" The second artist replies: "God gave you permission." Last... ›››

February 28, 2006

So How Does It Feel to Be A Global Micro-brand?

- Crossroads Dispatches

I received an email from someone writing a feature on marketing innovations and global microbrands. I answered the writer's email questions while I watch tonight's The Apprentice. (TV is rare for me, but concentration isn't a problem as I... ›››

So How Does It Feel to Be A Global Micro-brand?

- Crossroads Dispatches

February 10, 2006

The Isle of Serendipity and Intent Marketing

- Crossroads Dispatches

"Adams Branding, founded by legendary design icon, Donald Adams, has lent its innovative branding solutions and creative expertise to various national brands including, Proctor & Gamble, Starbucks and Johnson & Johnson. This year, Adams has engaged its "heart" and... ›››

Category: Awareness | Clear and Resonant Marketing | Innovators and Creators | Marketing

January 18, 2006

Letting Yourself Be Changed

- Crossroads Dispatches

I read a blurb about a travel memoir in the Bangkok Post, I believe the book is titled Disappear, but I can't recall. What I do remember is that it reviewer said that the difference between a tourist and... ›››

Category: Awareness | Global Lens | Innovators and Creators | Travel | Weblogs

January 17, 2006

Profound Multicultural Misunderstanding and Understanding

- Crossroads Dispatches

I finally asked John Moretti, whose been here on and off for much of the year post-tsunami, why the motorbikes insist on riding on the shoulder of the road. I often have to get off the shoulder and onto... ›››

Category: Awareness | Customer Empathy | Innovators and Creators | Teachable Moments | Tsunami

January 10, 2006

Sanuk, Customers, and Friends

- Crossroads Dispatches

Just before I hit publish on this post two elderly women, Germans I presume, walk into the rental car/tour operator/Internet cafe office. Your wife. She is alive? They pause for an answer. We are so happy. She helped us... ›››

January 01, 2006

New Year's Blessings

- Crossroads Dispatches

The Thai New Year (สงกรานต์ = Songkran in Thai language) is celebrated every year on April 13 to April 15, according to Wikipedia and what folks hanging out at Mama Dang's bar told me last night. Thus, if there... ›››

Category: Awareness

December 30, 2005

Fish Hooks

- Crossroads Dispatches

Chinese giftpaper wrapped narrow boxes stretch and float on the black ink pool. Squid fishing boats in the distance shine like the flashlights in the tangle of the jungle. The absence of whirring speedboats echoes in the tender kiss... ›››

Category: Awareness | Mind Training | Resiliency | Tsunami

December 29, 2005

Tan: 'Paradise is Inside'

- Crossroads Dispatches

Nearly half the staff of Maprao Resort - where I am staying now and was last year - fled from the island after the tsunami. The ones who stayed do not look out to sea just ten meters ahead... ›››

Category: Awareness | Innovators and Creators | Resiliency | Travel

December 26, 2005

Phi Phi Island, Thailand on Tsunami Anniversary, or the Laboon Anniversary

- Crossroads Dispatches

We stood for a minute of silence at 10:15 a.m. this morning. Later after the deputy prime minster has spoken, we file towards the bay. A six or seven-year old blond girl with a white sundress gently bows and... ›››

Category: Awareness | Resiliency | Storytelling | Tsunami