Leadership

A new major award pays homage to the best scenes about the American workplace. 

I’ve been a dedicated walker ever since I got my Fitbit 6 years ago. I don’t run. If Mark Twain were a walker, he’d probably have said something like, “Running is a good walk spoiled.” I subscribe to that theory. I’m a numbers nerd. That’s why I love my Fitbit. ...

I learned a long time ago when coaching baseball that you can’t motivate a player to do something they don’t want to do. They either have the inner drive or they don’t. I’d tell players and their parents at the first team meeting that “progress happens outside of practice.” If ...

Curiosity is a car-sized rover that NASA built to explore the Gale crater on the red planet as part of the space agency’s Mars Science Laboratory mission. The rover was launched from Cape Canaveral in November 2011 and landed on Mars nine months later in August 2012. What did we ...

Over the course of his thirty-year career in public television, Fred Rogers taught us about ourselves, others, and the world around us. The messages he shared on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood helped us feel good about who we are, with our relationships with others, and how to wonder and learn.  As ...

The Polar Express is one of my favorite Christmas movies. The film scores points with me on two fronts. First, it’s based on a children’s book by Grand Rapids native Chris Van Allsburg. Second, they get an “A” for effort for their early use of computer animation. Some people say ...

Tom Fishburne is my kind of guy. He’s got a great sense of humor, he knows marketing, and he’s a talented artist. His cartooning skills put him in a class with The Far Side’s Gary Larson for me. Fishburne’s recent Marketoonist cartoon struck a chord seeing how one of Revel’s ...

In the fall of 2010, we were looking for the right way to announce Revel to the world. In our case, the world mainly consisted of Muskegon and the surrounding communities. We’d started planning behind the scenes, but no one outside of our close circle knew about Revel. Then I ...

For the fourth time, Revel has been honored by the Best and Brightest competition as one of West Michigan’s 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work for. On top of the agency’s annual holiday beer making and famed office ping pong table, the Muskegon-based Agency has been recognized for its ...