Am I launching my book at the worst possible time? I don’t know, but it is ready to go. Good people, Wishing you the best during these turbulent times. I am trying to live my life as normally as I can during abnormal times. I write this from the desert
For better or worse, I am launching my book on April Fools’ Day. Find it on Amazon. With the pandemic, it is tough to find a way to cut through the clutter–and be sensitive to what is going on. Here is my attempt to create some cheeky social media graphics for
I am hosting a free webinar on 4/8. Free sign-up HERE. Shtick to Innovation:What the Masters of Comedy Can Teach You about Getting Through a Crisis and Building a Serious Career As coronavirus creates fear and uncertainty, there is a surprising place people can turn for help: comedy. Indeed, comedians
Greetings, good people. As you may know, I am on sabbatical in Los Angeles. Well, the pandemic is making me take a sabbatical from my sabbatical. I am writing this post from Joshua Tree, and I am wishing you well. My new book, Shtick to Business, launches one week from
I’ve launched a podcast that looks at the lives of comedians, improvisers, comedy writers, and other funny people from business, science, and the arts. It has been a lot of fun. I am launching five podcasts this week and will follow up with one every Wednesday. This week: JD Lopez:
Benign violation theory sighting in forthcoming research by Sam Yam and colleagues. Here is an article about it. What I like about this work is that it highlights both the risks and rewards of being funny at work: A leader who issues a steady drumbeat of ‘benign violations’ through his
The Journal of Consumer Research is publishing a paper that I wrote with Caleb Warren (University of Arizona) and Adam Barsky (University of Melbourne). We look beyond advertising research at ways humor has important effects on people’s lives. The abstract: Humor, Comedy, and Consumer Behavior Consumers regularly experience humor while
The robots are coming. With that in mind, I have been incorporating communication, creativity, and charisma lessons into my marketing management course. Students are going to need those skills during the fourth industrial revolution. The Leeds School recently covered a comedy-inspired “pitch lab” that I recently hosted. Here is an
Peter McGraw is concerned about his students and has been writing open letters to them. In this Solo Thoughts episode, he reads those letters
Welcome to the final episode of I’M NOT JOKING. Comedian JD Lopez returns from Episode 1 to debrief and reflect on Peter’s experience building
