Strange bedfellows. When shared values are a bad thing.
Shared values are great unless it’s like sleeping with the enemy. The perils of single-word values.
Fishing for chips
It’s no bad thing for a business to have a chip on its shoulder. It puts fire in the belly of the brand. For brand strategy, it’s good to go fishing for chips.
A brand is a strategy
A brand is a strategy. It should be a framework for making important choices. And not just the obvious ones about what to say and how to say it.
Getting your story straight
Some thoughts for the CEO’s of b2b and service businesses on getting your story straight. A vital component of brand strategy.
Chimps and champs
Brand values are like genes. They dictate attributes and behaviours. Humans share 98.8% of our genes with chimpanzees. It’s the 1.2% that make all the difference. The same goes for brand values.
Brand Purpose has its place
Purpose has its place. But that place might not be brand marketing. An examination of brand purpose from all angles and first principles.
Values as culture as strategy- a case study
Summary Once upon a time I was Planning Director at a now defunct digital marketing agency called Blonde. Our values were Flair, Action, Rigour. We chose those values as a strategic remedy for growing pains in the business. We defined them to affect a shift in culture, underpinned by some …
How to read company culture (unknown knowns)
Defining a brand is an act of realisation. Taking the scenic route to hard-to-reach destinations such as culture and values.