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Essays to help you guard your mission and grow your brand

The Age of Strategic Discernment

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To play on the words of Karl Marx, deconstruction has become the opiate of the marketer.  Or slightly more practical, we marketers have become drunk love with criticism.  And as I dig into WHY that might be, I think it all circles back to Darwin >> We’re all fighting to survive, believing that if we […]

Want to build a better brand? Start with the .1%.

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Long before I was born, author Earnest Hemingway coined a philosophy on writing called The Iceberg Theory.  The idea behind his theory is that as a writer, you should know so much about your idea that you’ll actually need to use FEWER words to engage the reader.  He explains it here:  “If a writer of […]

Why your brand story needs a worldview (and how to find it)

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One of the most powerful aspects of story lies in its ability to turn a ME into a WE.  As business owners and brand leaders, this is perhaps one of the greatest powers we seek to wield.  We want to tell story in order to convince others to join our side.  We want them to […]

Why every business needs a WE story

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It’s a weird phenomenon, really >> this fact that for so many of us, drawing the throughline between our stories and our brands can feel. . .  grueling impossible frustrating tiring hopeless pointless [fill in the blank]. I’m sure there’s some super smart psychological explanation for all of this H.A.R.D., too, but brass tacks, real […]

Two Ways to Find Your Brand Story

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