Are your business model and brand strategies aligned?
A new client asked me a good question today. “You talk Kay about helping us find our value promise, but my communications agency is totally focused on our brand platform. What’s what and why does it...
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A dangerous canyon often arises between business model strategy and marketing. Separate roles, meetings, deliverables, timetables, personalities and consultancies exist on each side of the divide. When...
View ArticleLessons for leaders from NBC’s newsroom fiasco
Even the mightiest can fall. Stars and companies fall from grace. Because of the public hanging, the fall is never pretty. And it’s far easier to explain what happened in hindsight than predict with...
View Article50 ways to lose your customers
Are customers cheering to adopt or dump your brand? Singer-composer Paul Simon’s classic song “50 Ways To Leave Your Lover” is about an emotionally torn man who “struggles to be free” of his wife. He...
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