Steve McCurry’s iconic photograph of a young Afghan girl in a Pakistani refugee camp appeared on the cover of National Geographic magazine’s June 1985 and became the most famous cover image in the magazine’s history. Steve McCurry/Courtesy of National Geographic. “There is an extremely powerful force that, so far, science [...]
If you’re in the luckiest 1% of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99%. - Warren Buffet Barnaby Marsh is a renowned philanthropic advisor helping the world’s biggest philanthropists and philanthropic institutions create transformational impact. Over his 30+ year career, Barnaby has put billions [...]
“If you want to be a leader, you have to be a real human being.” - Master Nan Huai Chin, author, scholar, one of the most renowned lay Buddhist masters in Asia. A Pause Releases Opportunity The pandemic has caused everyone to pause, particularly companies aggressively selling or marketing their products and [...]
“I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained” - Walt Disney Natalie Barandes is the founder and CEO of The Joy Factory, an LA film and TV production company that is a leading creative content studio for brands. Natalie produces films [...]
“40% of consumer sales are impacted by Gen Z. which means they have buying power.” - Interbrand By drawing on studies from McKinsey, EY, Deloitte and Pew I’ll shed some light on the newest generational cohort, a group that differs in significant ways from its predecessors. Gen Z is the [...]
Ready are you? What know you of ready? -Yoda New Rules Require New Brand Characteristics We live in an interconnected world of change where new ecosystem rules are starting to govern. This is a world where someone else’s “cause” is likely to create an “effect” on your business. Control is [...]
“Vibrate like a samurai, don’t tremble like a common man.” - Natori Masazumu Lucian James is a strategist, and one of my favorite modern thinkers. I’ve have had the pleasure of collaborating with him over the years and highly value his perspective and ideas. Bold, bright, empathetic and deeply insightful, Lucian [...]
"We have an opportunity to take something that kills .1% of us and make 99.9% of us stronger. Don’t waste it. A virus that kills millions, but serves as a wakeup call for billions? Is COVID-19 a vaccine?” -Mark Andreesen Breathe Deep COVID-19 is doing more than shaping a generation and [...]
"It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results." -Warren Buffet Make Your Brand Fully Present: Seen, Felt, Discussed I have always been a fan of using out-of-home media to build brands, because it provides the opportunity for immediate visibility and a way to generate excitement and conversation. [...]
“No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.” -Reid Hoffman, CEO Netflix Darwin Overturned Years ago, I was fortunate to be introduced to a new theory of evolution put forth by Dr. Martin Nowak, head of the Program for [...]