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.
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.
My values, three ways
Brand values should be specific and strategic. “My values, three ways” shows how to do this using me as a case study.
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.
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 …
Signal’s signals: defining my employer’s purpose and values.
Three sister agencies were merged into a single agency called Signal. And it fell to me to define the values of the merged entity. The output of that process is contained in the Slideshare file embedded below. It is designed to be self-explanatory and easy to digest. The output reflects …
T-Mobile Royal Wedding. Big, clever, funny… but not wide enough.
T-Mobile has disobeyed its own (flash) mob rules with its royal wedding ad. Last night, on the train home, I jotted down a list of T-Mobile values on the back of a receipt. (Sorry Evernote, I still love you.) These values are my out-take from the brand’s recent flash-mob style …