The principles in my book, What Great Brands Do: The Seven Brand-Building Principles That Separate the Best from the Rest can be applied to employees, employee experience, and employee engagement. For example, in WGBD, I explain that Great Brands Avoid Selling Products. Instead of simply focusing on selling products or services to customers, great brands […]
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 […]
In difficult times like the COVID-19 pandemic and protests over racial injustice, you might be tempted to hunker down, keep a low profile, and avoid taking on risk. But now is not the time to pull back; you have the opportunity to push forward. In fact, crisis tend to separate those leaders who are able […]
Apple announced it is moving into services — Netflix-type services, curating and streaming content. It’s a pretty big shift for a company that’s been primarily in hardware and software. If any company CAN make the shift, it’s Apple — but I wonder if it SHOULD. Will the core of the Apple brand be eroded in […]
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: […]
The story of how the venerable Ford Motor Company managed to recover from the Great Recession of 2008 may be one of the greatest corporate turnarounds in U.S. history. And it demonstrates how great brands rebound from turbulent times. Not only did Ford recover, but it ended up thriving and achieving heights once thought impossible […]
If you are like most business leaders around the world, you probably want to improve your employee engagement — for good reason. The Gallup organization estimates that actively disengaged employees cost the U.S. $450 billion to $550 billion in lost productivity per year. It’s clear employee engagement should be a priority for you, but in addition to asking how to engage […]
As we approach the end of 2016 (yes, time flies!), I thought it would be fun and interesting to do a survey on the Great Brand of the Year. I want to hear which brand you think deserves the top honor. And if you vote, you’ll get entered to win an autographed copy of my […]
Good to Great, the bestselling book by Jim Collins, offers timeless insights into what it takes to become great. It applies not only to businesses, but also to brands, people, churches, non-profits, governments, communities, and more. I recently revisited the text, along with the monograph accompanying it, Good to Great and the Social Sector, and […]
What do Mitch Joel, Mark Di Somma, Adam Toporek, Jeannie Walters, Mike Wittenstein, and yours truly have to say about customer experience and brand-building? Check out this slideshare of quotes, Great Brands Create Extraordinary Experiences. These nuggets of wisdom are culled from a series of interviews I had with business thought-leaders about my new book, Extraordinary Experiences: […]