Very interesting post by Tim Kitchin: Corporate Identity Theft
Waterfalls and chaos
I linked to this paper on wicked problems the other day and Chris Corrigan commented “there’s a lot in that paper eh?”. Which is true.
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Unhurried marketing
I’m experimenting with marketing less and listening more
Passion branding
Passion brands bring people together based on common interests and excitements. I’m particularly interested in ones created from the bottom up, as opposed to driven by producers concerned mainly with profit.
Medinge Moments
Just back from another extraordinary gathering at Medinge where the community that has produced Beyond Branding meets each summer. I was planning to keep this
What brand are you?
Thanks to Matt Tucker at Smith Associates for telling me about What Brand Are You. It strikes me that lots of companies waste money on
The volatile chemistry of trust
Interesting research from Stanford suggests that exciting brands get more trusted after making mistakes and putting them right whilst more “sincere” brands start with more trust but lose it more easily. Perhaps the sensible interpretation is that second-guessing customers can be a waste of time!
Customer-centricity: is it the answer?
Michael Hammer’s new book, The Agenda, is about the rise of customer power. But is customer-centricity really such a good model for business and society?
Just Undo It?
The AntiBrand: blackSpot sneakers, a project by Adbusters attacks Nike directly. In doing so they take on what has become one of the great icons
Putting humanity into branding
We live in a world of too much marketing and too much branding. People’s faith in advertising has fallen to new lows as we simply
New Abbey
So the Abbey National is rebranding itself this morning. As I write this entry, they are revealing their new look, their shortened name (just “Abbey”)
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Random acts of madness (3)
Further to my previous posts on this topic here’s Tom’s perspective on what’s happening in New York’s Central Park right now. Thousands and thousands of us walked through Central Park
14 February 2005
Now that IS clever…
Some smart marketing from Transport for London – well targetted information about something that actually matters to me.
16 February 2005
What if it’s all performance?
Seeing what we do as a performance creates more possibilities for change
13 April 2023
Practice, practice
Two interesting posts on practice: Chris Corrigan’s The purpose of practice is practice Practicing kindness possibility seeking and deep listening on a daily basis ingrains those skills and capacities. It
22 April 2012
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