The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.

I'm uncomfortable when I'm comfortable. I have to start something new-in the agency or in my personal life-every two years or so. Taking risks gives me energy. I can't help it, it's my personality. I'd like to think it's not really a compulsion toward high risks, but the spirit of an entrepreneur.

Outside of advertising, the person who's influenced me most is quite possibly Frank Gehry.

My real talent was for losing clients.

First, this isn't about telecommuting, because we still have offices that people will come to regularly when they need to brainstorm together, meet with clients, or do research in the library.

Eighty percent of what everyone's talking about never happens. I don't mean in terms of product development that's happening right now, I'm talking about the far-flung visions of the future.

Sometimes the most important job advertising can do, is to clarify the obvious.