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Every day, we’re confronted by thousands of messages imploring us to think or act in a certain way. Not just from marketers. But from our friends, colleagues and loved ones, too.

Why do some of those succeed, why do most fail miserably, and what does it tell us about how to get more done by communicating more persuasively?

That’s the stuff of strategic communications. That’s the stuff of Frank J. Oswald’s Mental Shavings. Weigh in with your comments. Or drop me a note at frank@frankoswald.com.

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Batto Sphera Recte


Batto Sphera Recte? Perhaps you’ve seen this bumper sticker around town, and asked yourself, “What the heck is that?” Well, here’s the answer. 

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Jun112009

There’s No Better Way to Announce a New Wealth Management Firm… 



… then with one of the most played-out corporate stock-photo metaphors of the past three decades.

C’mon Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. You guys can do better than this. Were all the images of business people jumping over track hurdles taken?

Or was your marketing committee so large that such embarassingly derivative creative was all that the agency could get approved?

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