Many people are attracted to shiny objects: flashy cars, impressive houses, corner offices, dream romances, cathartic emotional experiences, ersatz spiritual revelations, but in today’s highly-technologized environment, an exceptional brand is based on creating an authentic perception of the reality that lies at the heart and soul...

Authenticity starts with knowing what makes a brand tick. The facts about what an organization does can easily be identified and expressed. But the reality of its essence can only come from an incisive definition of what’s going behind the scenes.

Mass marketing is going the way of the town crier. Demographics, impressions and hit rates are fast becoming anachronisms, and current technology is hard at work leading us there. How? By moving away from the centrality of the mass and toward the singularity of the individual.

"Understanding needs to come before action, and in that sense, the professional world mirrors the personal.   Meaningful rebrands are about re-discovering a sense of mission, purpose and identity far more than they are about

"The top button in any business is its brand.  This is of particular importance for start-up companies.  They alone are in a unique position to put first things first and get that one right from the get-go."

Traditionally, the human resources function has been primarily focused on capability-based hiring, retention and development of corporate culture.

Hiring has been predicated on identifying candidates with the exact skill set necessary to fill a particular position.  Retention has revolved around placing new hires in environments th...

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Why?  Because organizations today want to know more about who a person is than what they do.  Once, the  main focus for employers, professional and social organizations was on capabilities alone.  Now, that has shifted to a more holistic concept that aligns with our hyper-connected age known as “fit.”

"For any organization that aspires to cut decisively through the brand clutter and build a standout identity, using anyone but a professional designer to create visual media is not a nice-to-have; it’s a must."

INDIVIDUALITY is the prime casualty of consumer driven, data-centric marketing. We are being segmented and targetted as increasingly  complex extrapolations of social, political and economic groupings, rather than identified as singular individuals. 

Nowhere is this consumer-driven orientation having more impact...