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Extending the Circle of Safety Today
As we look forward to the weekend, let’s look back. As a leader did you: Clarify your organization’s “why?“ Bring others who shared your values into your organization, and not just those who had the skills you wanted? Extend the … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership
Tagged leadership, organization, organizational development, philosophy
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Whiffletrees and the OODA Loop
Sounds like a barbershop quartet and a fad from the 1950’s, doesn’t it? As I promised on Tuesday and finally got around to today, here’s the concept of using a whiffletree to manage your multichannel marketing. You might think that with … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Marketing, Organization, Tactics
Tagged analog, analysis, digital marketing, multichannel marketing, systems, whiffletree
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Your Customers Are Not Consumers
Kudos to Unilever’s CMO Keith Weed for starting to banish the word “consumer” from the marketing vocabulary. Molds, fungi, and bacteria are consumers. People buy your products and services. In a talk at Cannes today, he discussed Unilever’s marketing transition from … Continue reading
Posted in Branding, Communications, Marketing
Tagged branding, corporate communications, customers, marketing strategy, people
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Improve Your Multichannel Marketing With a Whiffletree
Some of the digital natives out there might think of us old direct mail guys as being in the buggy whip business. Fair enough. It may be hard to see what mail has to do with retargeting, programmatic media buying … Continue reading
Posted in Marketing, Organization
Tagged analog, conversion, DAC, digital, digital marketing, marketing automation, multichannel marketing, whiffletree, whippletree
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Forget Big Data. Improve Marketing With a Cathode Follower!
What do tube amplifiers have to do with digital marketing? It turns out the analog world of tube circuits is more like the real world of marketing and advertising than the clean, digital, “Big Data” world we’d like to believe … Continue reading
Posted in Communications, Guitar, Marketing, Organization
Tagged amplification, analog, digital, guitar, marketing, marketing automation, music, noise, signal
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Remember D-Day
It’s pitch black, 00:16 hours and you’ve just crash-landed near Caen. You’re in hostile territory, lost, and some of your comrades are already dead and wounded. You’re just 20 years old and have never been in combat. So began D-Day … Continue reading
Price-Driven Corporate Brutality?
The quest for the bottom line leads to brutality, says Seth Godin in today’s blog post. The race to the bottom, driven by price, causes people within companies to treat others with disregard of the Golden Rule. Outsourcing, treating customers … Continue reading
Posted in Customer Care, Leadership, Organization, Sales
Tagged contempt, leadership skills, Pricing, sales, Seth Godin
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The Only Five Arrows That Matter for The New York Times
This graphic from BI Intelligence showed up in my email yesterday and I took the time to scribble all over it. (I tend to think with a pen in hand.) I found it relevant to my recent post about the … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Branding, Marketing, Mobile, Strategy
Tagged Internet Trends, Mary Meeker, mobile, New York Times
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Innovate Creatively or Die, New York Times
I love the New York Times. I learned how to read newspapers in school, with the Times as the teaching vehicle. What I recall learning: It contains “All the News That’s Fit to Print” The Times always gets the facts … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Branding, Marketing, Media, Organization, Strategy
Tagged advertising, Innovation Report, media, New York, New York Times, newspapers, strategy
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We Need Action, Not Strategy, Said No Security Expert Ever
Bruce Schneier’s recent post on Al Qaeda’s efforts to create their own encryption software had me shaking my head. They were making a very fundamental error that a lot of companies also make, even though Al Qaeda isn’t organized in … Continue reading
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