Ice Cream Friday: Jake’s Ice Cream visits Jackson Spalding
Today will be an interesting day. I’m excited to host a focus group for Jake Rothschild, the serial entrepreneur and owner of Jake’s Ice Cream. A group of Jackson Spalding colleagues will walk-through the challenges of opening a retail concept on Peachtree Street in Midtown. While we’re all marketers and communicators, today we’re volunteering our […]
Giving back to those who give back
Yesterday, I attended the annual awards lunch to honor Midtown’s most dedicated and hard working volunteers. The program was filled with quotes — some popular, some obscure — about volunteering and community service. My favorite is from Tom Brokaw who said, “It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot harder to make a difference.” […]
Looking behind vitriolic speech and soundbites
I’ll have to be honest, until yesterday I didn’t put a lot of energy into thinking about the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay. My feelings could be summed up in one word: bad. Bad people, bad policy. And then Rear Admiral Jim McGarrah spoke to Midtown Atlanta Rotary Club and implored each of us […]