Gilbert must rename Compuware Building after Karmanos

Any day now, Quicken Loans founder and Cleveland Cavs owner Dan Gilbert will announce the new name for the Compuware Building in downtown Detroit he purchased recently. There is only one name that is right and righteous: some form of Compuware Co-Founder Peter Karmanos, Jr. Pete, as his friends call him, laid the foundation for Detroit’s renaissance when he moved the Compuware HQ from the suburbs to Campus Martius and built for his employees one of the finest HQs in the world, complete with a gym, a killer eatery (subsidized for the employees) and even day care. Karmanos, of course, preceded the Compuware HQ by building one of the finest cancer treatment centers in the world, the Barbara Karmanos Cancer Center, in honor of his late-wife. Again, in a Detroit that many had turned their backs on.

Since that foundation was laid, Gilbert has honorably been building on Pete’s good will and vision and is leading now the charge in downtown Detroit.

Every time I hit up Pete for a donation to a charitable cause I was working with — be it Judson Center or Forgotten Harvest — he’d quickly open up his wallet and let the money flow to those who desperately needed it.

Dan, please honor our friend. He never asks for anything in return and it is time that someone pays him back for all the good he has done.

In NASCAR capital to do interview on local Fox; SEMA 2014 in Vegas next

Drove 4 hours with Betsy to Charlotte for an interview October 28th, 7:30 a.m. on the local FOX station (appreciate their interest). The drive from Wilmington to Charlotte is so easy and then so brutal as the last 3,000 miles are through suburbs with strip mall after strip mall, 35 to 45 miles an hour.

What Did Jesus Drive? Crisis PR in Cars, Computers and Christianity officially launches November 1, but lots of people already have the paperback and the e-book in their hands and devices. The electronic versions beyond Kindle get loaded in a few days.

Then, it’s on to Vegas for SEMA2014. Keep the faith. Keep telling the truth. Over and out. Jason Vines

What Lee Iacocca and Autoweek’s Dutch Mandel said about What Did Jesus Drive? coming Nov.1

Jason Vines’ book is being described as “unprecedented,” “defining,” and a “light shining on darkness.”

“Jason’s story telling is his honest account of time well spent in a career documenting numerous pivotal events we all want to hear about.” Lee Iacocca.

“Jason Vines lived The Hurt Locker, defusing one public relations I.E.D. after another. To think some of the largest corporations we can name have been this close to pure PR disaster, and yet were saved by the insight Jason earned from decades of corporate cage fights, is truly amazing. What Did Jesus Drive is a deep dive – nay, it is the colonoscopy – into the bowels of business, and it shares stories long known by a select few, or whispered in hallways outside war rooms.”” Dutch Mandel, Autoweek Publisher.

What Democratic Strategist Joe Trippi is saying about What Did Jesus Drive? and Author Jason Vines

“Get me Jason Vines! How I wish as the candidates I worked for screamed, screwed, or gaffed their way into crisis, I had called on Jason Vines. This is more than a corporate PR book – it’s a masters’ class, no holds barred, white knuckle ride of insights and wisdom for anyone whose job it is to communicate for a living. Jack Nicholson’s character in “A Few Good Men” bellowed “you can’t handle the truth” – Jason Vines in raw and real story telling of his own journey explains to every politician, celebrity, corporate communications professional and government agency that has ever faced trouble (yes I am talking about you NFL – read this one Goodell!) why we have such a hard time telling the truth, why that’s the whole frickin’ problem and what we can do about it.” Joe Trippi, Democratic Campaign and Media Consultant.