Michael Rosenbaum's Blog, page 7

Thoughts On Life: Real Power

You don't have to be delusional to live in a world of your own making. At least, I hope that's true, because ALL of us live in a world we create for ourselves.

Last summer in Chicago, we were complaining about the heat. In the summer just ended, we were complaining about the cold. Was either summer good enough for us, or do we just have to insist that God work a lot harder on our behalf?

In many ways, 2009 in Chicago offered us a great summer. Cool nights made for great sleeping weather,  the...

Thoughts on Life: If I Was Selling Health Care Reform

We all laugh at the tourists who can't speak the local language, so they speak slowly and loudly in English in order to be understood. Failing in that attempt, they decide to speak more slowly and loudly, which is absolutely foolproof, as we all know.

I see the same approach in the endless lobbying for health care reform by the Obama administration. It's a classic case of bad marketing. Ineffective messages fail to convince, so the volume and frequency are increased, as if the audience didn't...