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5 April , 20233 April , 2023

Four Brand building lessons from Wes Anderson … and two warnings

I really like Wes Anderson movies and as a brand builder I’m drawn to analysing why brands, like Anderson’s, are successful, and as he has a new movie coming out soon lets dive down the Wes Anderson Fox-hole. He has a recognisable brand that millions adore (and millions detest- and he’s true to his brand. For the first lesson – not counted – is to turn some people on, you must turn other off- don’t be afraid to make enemies for your brand you need these to have other fall in love and become your advocates.… Read more

17 December , 201917 December , 2019

Business teaching on Netflix

I’ve recently watched two HBO productions that had me thinking : The Inventor, a documentary about the Theranos scandal, and Chernobyl, a mini-series of the worst accident in nuclear history, but which captured a basic truth about why it happened. “The Chernobyl disaster was more about lies, deceit and a rotting political system than it was about bad engineering or abysmal management and training.”… Read more

10 January , 201429 December , 2013

Failure’s 5 lessons

I’ve failed a lot in my career, and I wont bore you with a laundry list, safe to say the failures weren’t career threatening, just embarrassing.

I did learn though. The painful touch of failure made the lesson all the more memorable.

Taking stock, achieving the meaningful results in large projects the first time around is rare. I’ve certainly found that the best lessons are learned when things don’t happen the way you want them to and you find out what doesn’t work as planned.… Read more