I just spent two and a half minutes watching Pepsi's new ad featuring Kendall Jenner and I actually feel like I was violated. This is the most ridiculous excuse for a clever ad I have ever seen. This ain't Coke teaching the world to sing, this is Pepsi saying that millennials are just shallow, gullible, sensational idiots.

For nearly a century, big fat consultancies have been pulling the wool over the eyes of corporate America... and organizations worldwide. Providing business analysis, financial advice, human resources planning, employee communications, customer service, blah, blah, blah.

I am not sure what is worse, the fact that DDB thought it would be special to add an "R" to its name for one day to honor International Women's Day or the fact that Adweek thought it was worthy of covering.

I have never been shy about my worship of heroes. From Jimmy Stewart to Maya Angelou to Steve Jobs to my dad, I love and admire focused, imaginative, passionate, hard-working, fun-loving people. And Howard Schultz has always been atop my list.

We are obsessed in America – and I believe rightfully so – with the idea of winning. And we love our champions. But we also love to dictate the terms of this relationship: how we should go about the process of winning and how we should act when we finally win.

The employees.                              The clients.                                        The vendors. The friends, supporters and allies. The open-minded, optimistic visionaries. The ones who saw our potential... and believed. They're not your regular Joes. They ignore consensus and buck the trends. You can question them, doubt them, disagree with them, shun them or even applaud them.

In the past few weeks, I've personally and professionally witnessed several instances of businesses canceling 2016 Olympic marketing expenditures specifically because the rules of the International Olympic Committee basically bar anyone from associating with the coveted name and image of the games.

Ron Popiel once warned us (but apparently not Amazon): "The problem with buttons is they always fall off." But we just never learn. And Amazon never gives up. They announced this week the release of an entirely new hoard of Dash Buttons.

"What's in a name?" Juliet ponders. "that which we call a rose by any other names would smell as sweet." Tell that to Tesco, one of the world's largest retailers. According to its website, its core purpose is: Serving Britain's shoppers a little better, every day.

Has it become increasingly more painful to handle modern day air travel or is it just me? Twice in the past week I was delayed more than 8 hours and experienced one canceled (overnight) flight. It sucks royally, and to make matters worse, the airlines are completely unapologetic.