In every marketplace insurgent brands are kicking ass. Now you have a choice: learn to think, plan and act like an insurgent brand, or get used to losing. Our company got its start in politics. In the mid-1980s, Steven Jobs called on us: “You guys understand...
Two years ago, Pat Caddell of The Smith Project predicted the rise of a Donald Trump in American politics (you can see that projection from early 2014 here. At the time, none of us of WeNeedSmith.com knew it would be Trump himself. But we did know...
Scott Miller and David Morey There’s a leadership crisis in American business and American politics—a crisis that extends around the world. What’s the problem? We find the training and managing of leadership is broken. It’s stuck inside an outdated industrial revolution model. But today, we live...
Okay, it’s officially a crisis. Doors on the executive floor are slamming shut. The CEO, chief counsel, group of senior managers and some lawyerly-looking types are huddled in the board room while the breakfast coffee turns cold. It’s a major screw-up. It’s a rogue trader or...
SAN FRANCISCO, November 19, 2015/ - Noble Profit, a digital media and technology source for clean tech, impact, and sustainability information, announced today their joint venture partnership with DMG, a strategic consultancy run by David Morey, known for advising and adding value to some of...
Today, innovation isn't just a luxury for businesses. Innovation, in fact, is the critical difference between success and failure, between survival and extinction. As Peter Drucker once said: "Business comes down to two thing: innovation and marketing." And today, marketing won't do your business much...
Walter Isaacson’s new book, The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, offers a computer age grand tour: from the tentative beginnings of the computer age in the 1830s all the way forward to Wikipedia and the Internet. This...
A number of recent and excellent books by Mika Brezinski (Knowing Your Value: Women, Money and Getting What You’re Worth; Weinstein Publishing) and by my former Columbia University student, Claire Shipman (The Confidence Code; Harper-Collins), highlight the challenges facing women executives today and deliver various...
For your interest, here is my latest blog for the leadership foundation IFS in South Korea: “Playing Offense With Big Data.” Enjoy. http://www.ifs.or.kr/modules/board/bd_view.asp?no=153&id=blog And look for my new book out later this year: The Insurgent Advantage: How to Win in the Richest and Riskiest Business Environment Ever. As...
Greetings. Below please find a blog on "Asia Leadership" that I was asked to write for a new Korean think tank, the Institute for the future of State (IFS), set up by our former client, South Korean President Park Geun-hye. The direct IFS link and English...