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#206 Albert D. Lasker (the creation of the advertising industry)

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Who was this Albert Lasker? Whose energy and imagination ran in so many directions at once. And who was, in his own words, Driven by a thousand devils. His friends considered him charming.

Brilliant. Thrilling. And exhausting. His subordinates admired him enormously, and and dreaded his arrival at the office and the tumult that inevitably ensued.

clients quickly learn that there was no such thing as a half embrace of Or buy Albert Lasker. He pursued life with a fervor That offended and alienated many people.

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