To change your strategy – your what – you need to change your how – your culture. And you need to change your culture first – because your culture is what will ensure your organization is able to execute on your strategy. In my new Brand+Culture Series post on LinkedIn, I show how to use […]
How do you build a great brand? Ever since I wrote the book What Great Brands Do, I’ve been on a quest to discover and share answers to this question. While all seven brand-building principles that I introduced in the book still are important and relevant today, the one that has risen to the top […]
The problem at Amazon is not simply that its culture has gone awry; more importantly, it has become disconnected from the company’s brand. Amazon’s brand has always been grounded in its aspiration of becoming “Earth’s Most Customer-Centric Company.” And its leaders have used the organization’s core values, “Leadership Principles”, to guide the company in service […]
In a previous post, I introduced the nine brand types that all brands fall into. I explained that in my years of experience working on a broad range of brands, I found that, although no two brands share the exact same brand identity, there are really only nine general brand types. This post is about […]
The audio book version of FUSION: How Integrating Brand and Culture Powers the World’s Greatest Companies is now available! Now you can listen to stories, anecdotes, examples, and case studies about 59 organization and learn about how to achieve brand-culture fusion, the full integration and alignment of external brand identity and internal organizational culture.* Here’s […]
Early results from the Brand-Culture Fusion Assessment show that the workplace culture at many organizations isn’t aligned with their desired brand identities. In other words, many companies aspire to be perceived a certain way, but the way they operate doesn’t support that aspiration. […]
In my new book FUSION: How Integrating Brand and Culture Powers the World’s Greatest Companies, I explain that brand-culture fusion — the full integration and alignment of external brand identity and internal organizational culture — explains the success of the world’s greatest companies including the ones we’ve admired for years such as Southwest Airlines and […]
It’s launch day for my new book, FUSION: How Integrating Brand and Culture Powers the World’s Greatest Companies!! Get your copy here. Check out this introduction: […]