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13
May
Strategy but for Agencies: The Five Forces of Agencyland

Strategy but for Agencies: The Five Forces of Agencyland

How profitable can marketing agencies be?
9 min read
10
May
Buying the Dip

Buying the Dip

Brand building in a time of recession
10 min read
07
May
The Purpose of Purpose: Summing Up

The Purpose of Purpose: Summing Up

Well, I’ve spent a month writing on this topic and I probably could go on. But I’ll sum
7 min read
05
May

The Purpose of Purpose: Company Values and Brand Values

Innovatively disruptive. Creatively courageous. Relentlessly customer-centric. Adverbially adjectival.
7 min read
30
Apr

The Purpose of Purpose: Best vs Good Enough

We're more interested in avoiding guilt than attaining sainthood.
6 min read
30
Apr

The Purpose of Purpose: Purpose, Positioning and the Benefit Ladder

So, I’ve talked about… * The difference between purpose as discoverable fact and purpose as useful tool. * The difference between
7 min read
26
Apr

The Purpose of Purpose: Doing Good

Superman does good. Businesses do well.
8 min read
22
Apr

The Purpose of Purpose: The Incidental Utility of Brand Purpose

Post hoc ergo propter hoc.
7 min read
19
Apr

The Purpose of Purpose: Strategishness

All truth is poetic but not all poetry is true.
5 min read
17
Apr

The Purpose of Purpose: Company Purpose vs Brand Purpose

Is purpose supposed to stay the same? Or is it something that keeps changing? Or is it both?
6 min read