Daniel Lubetzky

In three paragraphs, Peter Goodman [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/business/economy/13excerpt.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=big%20spenders&st=cse] plainly describes how an administrator ended in a homeless shelter: Big Spenders? They Wish By PETER S. GOODMAN Millions of Americans have lost homes, jobs and savings to the financial crisis and recession. While greed and extravagance played roles, many lived beyond their means because their paychecks shrank. This [...]

Time Magazine wrote a very compelling piece about "The High Price of Cheap Food." It should be required reading, as should the movie Food Inc. and Michael Pollan’s books, which presumably inspired this article. TIME  Friday, Aug. 21, 2009 Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food By Bryan Walsh Correction Appended: Aug. 20, [...]

I’ve been meaning to upload this picture of a bus stop ad – from a very creative ad campaign for the movie District 9.

Devin Leonard wrote an excellent article [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/business/media/30ad.html?_r=1&sq=hey%20pc&st=cse&scp=1&pagewanted=print] about the epic advertising rivalry between Apple and Microsoft. It includes nice lessons & insights for students of advertising. August 30, 2009 Hey, PC, Who Taught You to Fight Back? By DEVIN LEONARD SEAN SILER would never be mistaken for a movie star. A former Navy officer who [...]

Alina Tugend wrote a piece last week in the New York Times that I think contains some valuable insights about how to give and receive criticism. New York Times August 29, 2009 Shortcuts For Best Results, Take the Sting Out of Criticism By ALINA TUGEND THIS may come as a surprise, but I don’t like [...]

Very few people in my life have struck me as much as Van Jones for being as exceptionally inspiring, as extraordinarily sincere in their commitment to help improve the lot of others, and as leaders with such well rounded qualifications as Van’s. Van is a fellow "Young Global Leader" from the World Economic Forum and [...]

Ben Cohen, one of my mentors and founding Board members of PeaceWorks, is truly one of the great social marketing geniuses of all time. Much of the reason for it is that he BELIEVES in what he does. And now they did it again, with, as my team member Phil shared, "a gutsy (and arguably [...]

Here is a project that seems quite powerful: …a mesmerizing dialogue between teh children of the perpetrators of the Holocaust and the children of the surivors.  Both live out the Holocaust daily, unable to move forward.  Both finally face the past and are empowered to move on. The trailer video contained here is worth watching. [...]

My friend Andrew McLaughlin had pointed me to this very cool video and this post a while back – re Technology and the White House transition – and I only now got to see it.  The way the new techies in the White House are thinking about government and governance is really innovative – they [...]

Nice idea for a social enterprise to build a guerrilla marketing campaign on: