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Building A Leading Brand Requires Critical Self-Examination

It’s always important to have a deep, unvarnished understanding of your brand. This clarity is what allows leaders to make smart decisions, inspire confidence, and build trust inside and outside the organization. One must: Know its qualities and strengths. Acknowledge the organization’s accomplishments. Nourish a positive vision of the business’s future. However, at the same time, the pathway to sustainable growth can be unwittingly compromised by the absence of unflinching, critical, self-examination and regular reality...

Years Of Marketing Underinvestment Catch Up To Kraft Heinz

Kraft Heinz recently announced a planned split into two separate companies with the goal of improving operating performance and accompanying shareholder return for each of the successor entities. This announcement has generated significant coverage in the business and financial press, with much of this coverage focusing on the challenges Kraft Heinz has faced related to changing consumer tastes and preferences. Additionally, many other companies in consumer products have lamented recent softness in consumer spending across...

The Role Of Emotion In Business Strategy

How do we tell the difference between what we feel and what we know? Many of us fear this question, particularly in the workplace, because it reinforces the conclusion that there is a firm line between emotion and rationality. Emotion, however, is a form of knowledge as well as a barometer of intelligence. In a productive organization, emotion is an essential component in the formation of strategy. We’ve learned this from branding.

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