by David Phillips | Jul 6, 2015 | Featured, Business, Economics
On Thursday, the Bureau of Labor released it’s jobs report for June, 2015. According to the report, the economy added 223,000 jobs, and the unemployment rate dropped to 5.3%. The problem with the jobs report is that, while the unemployment rate dropped, the reason it...
by David Phillips | Jun 24, 2015 | Featured, Culture, Feature Articles
Ferguson, Missouri. New York. Walter Scott. The racial upheaval resulting from these killings have dominated the news for much of the past nine months. But the Charleston massacre last week may have been a tipping point, ripping a large piece of the scab off the...
by David Phillips | Jun 8, 2015 | Culture, Featured
During the late ’80s, Rev. Jeffrey Brown was watching his neighborhood become overrun with drugs and violence. He decided to listen to the young people in the community — not preach to them — in order to bring about change. He is one of the co-founders of the...
by David Phillips | Jan 22, 2015 | Featured, Culture, Feature Articles, Podcasts
In this episode of Changing Culture, I look at how Ellen Degeneres has changed her brand, how Converse is changing marketing, and how Martin Luther King changed the world. And they did it the same way. [podcast]http://wdavidphillips.com/audio/Jan202015.mp3[/podcast]...
by David Phillips | Jan 27, 2014 | Featured, Culture
During the Grammy awards, Pink flew through air singing Try, I was asked, “Why don’t people just sing anymore?” I just said that singing is just boring these days. Everything has to be a show. It’s all about entertainment, and people need more than just someone...
