brand power: now … more than ever! tom peters 03.29.2001
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BRAND POWER:NOW … MORE THAN EVER!
Tom Peters03.29.2001
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1. The Case
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“There will be more confusion in the business world in the next decade than in any decade in history.
And the current pace of change will only accelerate.”
Steve Case
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Brand It! Now, More Than Ever!
“The increasing difficulty in differentiating between products and
the speed with which competitors take
up innovations will assist in the rise and rise of the brand.”
Gillian Law and Nick Grant, Management [New Zealand]
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“The ‘surplus society’ has a surplus of
similar companies, employing
similar people, with similar educational backgrounds, working in
similar jobs, coming up with similar
ideas, producing similar things, with
similar prices and similar quality.”
Kjell Nordstrom and Jonas Ridderstrale, Funky Business
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“Companies have defined so much ‘best practice’
that they are now more or less identical.”
Jesper Kunde, A Unique Moment
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“Most companies in the old, product-oriented economy waste far too much
of their resources on product development, management systems and logistics compared to what the
company could achieve by investing in the strength of the brand and its
positioning in the market.”
Jesper Kunde, A Unique Moment
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2. The Question
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“WHO ARE YOU [these days] ?”
TP to Client
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“You can’t survive floating on the tide, assessing the competition, conducting surveys to find out what your customers want right now.
What do you want? What do you want to tell the world in the future? What does your company have that will
enrich the world? You must believe in that ‘it’ strongly enough to become unique at
what you do.”
Jesper Kunde, A Unique Moment
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“Most companies tend to equate branding with the company’s marketing. Design a new marketing
campaign and, voila, you’re on course. They are wrong. The task is much bigger. It is about fulfilling our potential … not about a new logo, no matter how
clever. WHAT IS MY MISSION IN LIFE? WHAT DO I WANT TO CONVEY TO PEOPLE? HOW DO
I MAKE SURE THAT WHAT I HAVE TO OFFER THE WORLD IS ACTUALLY UNIQUE? The brand has to give of itself, the company has to give of itself, the management has to give of itself. To
put it bluntly, it is a matter of whether – or not – you want to be … UNIQUE … NOW.”
Jesper Kunde, A Unique Moment
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3. Emotion Rules
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“The idea that business is just a numbers affair has always struck me as preposterous.
For one thing, I’ve never been particularly good at numbers, but I think I’ve done a
reasonable job with feelings. And I’m convinced that it is feelings – and
feelings alone – that account for the success of the Virgin brand in all of
its myriad forms.”Richard Branson
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“In the funky village, real competition no longer revolves
around marketshare. We are competing for attention –
mindshare and heartshare.”Kjell Nordstrom and Jonas Ridderstrale,
Funky Business
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“We are in the twilight of a society based on data. As information and intelligence become the domain of computers, society will place more value on the one human ability that cannot be automated: emotion.
Imagination, myth, ritual - the language of emotion - will affect everything from our purchasing decisions
to how we work with others. Companies will thrive on the basis of their stories and myths. Companies will need to understand
that their products are less important than their stories.”
Rolf Jensen, Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies
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Scott Bedbury/ Nike, Starbucks
“A Great Brand taps into emotions. Emotions drive most, if not all, of our decisions. A brand reaches out with a powerful connecting experience. It’s an
emotional connecting point that transcends the product.
“A Great Brand is a story that’s never completely told. A brand is a metaphorical story that
connects with something very deep - a fundamental appreciation of mythology.
Stories create the emotional context people need to locate themselves in a larger experience.”
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“Most executives have no idea how to add value to a market in the metaphysical
world. But that is what the market will cry out for in the future. There is no lack of ‘physical’ products to
choose between.”
Jesper Kunde, A Unique Moment [on the excellence of Nokia, Nike, Lego, Virgin et al.]
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4. Unique or Bust
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Brand = You Must Care!
“Success means never letting the competition
define you. Instead you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care deeply
about.” Tom Chappell, Tom’s of Maine
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“You do not merely want to be the best of the best. You
want to be considered the only ones who do
what you do.”
Jerry Garcia
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“We’re not going to be driven by where we think a funding
agency would like to see us go. We’re going to build our case …
and then find an organization that agrees with us.”
Stephen Spongberg, Polly Hill Arboretum
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5. Brand “Inside”: The Systems &
Talent Connection
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Jesper Kunde’s Challenge: All business processes
should be aligned with the Brand/Value Promise.
Think … Brand Driven Systems!
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Remember!
Talent = Brand*
* And don’t forget Hal R.
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Remember: What’s your company’s
EVP?Employee Value Proposition, per Ed
Michaels et al., The War for Talent
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Edgartown MA: A&P Fun in the Sun Store
DO THE EMPLOYEES
BUY THIS ACT?
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6. Getting Started
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“Brand Promise” Exercise: (1) Who Are WE? (1 page, then 25 words.) (2) List
three ways in which we are UNIQUE … to our Clients. (3) Who are THEY (competitors)? (ID, 25 words.)
(4) List 3 distinct “us”/”them” differences. (5) Try “results” on your teammates. (6) Try ’em on a friendly Client. (7) Big Enchilada:
Try ’em on a skeptical Client!
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T.T.D./Assignment Y2K
Write an essay on “Who we are.”*
* Jesper Kunde, Corporate Religion
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T.T.D.: “How can I know what I think till I see what I say”*
Exercise : Write copy for a bookmark! (Etc.)
*Graham Wallas, The Art of Thought
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T.T.D./Calling the Corporate Shrink!
“Organizational Psychotherapy”/
WHO WE ARE!
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7. Who Are We, Anyway?
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Brand = Special = Passion = Plot =
Compelling Mythology = Cause = Connection = Heart = Integrity &
Trust
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Message: REAL Branding is personal. REAL Branding is integrity. REAL
Branding is consistency & freshness. REAL Branding is the answer to WHO
ARE WE? WHY ARE WE HERE? REAL Branding is why I/you/we [all] get out of bed in the morning. REAL Branding can’t be faked. REAL Branding is a systemic, 24/7, all departments,
all hands affair.
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“WHO ARE WE?”
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“WHO AM I ?”
[“Me and the Brand Promise, a Passionate Saga” – We hope!]
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“EXACTLY HOW AM I/
ARE WE DIFFERENT?”
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“ WHY DOES IT MATTER TO
THE CLIENT?”
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“EXACTLY HOW DO I CONVEY
THAT DIFFERENCE TO
THE CLIENT ”
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8. Brand Leadership:
Passion in the Open
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“Leadership is a performance. You have to be
conscious of your behavior, because everybody else is.”
Carly Fiorina
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“You must be the change you
wish to see in the world.”
Gandhi
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“It is necessary for the President to be the
nation’s No. 1 actor.”FDR
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“Leaders achieve their
effectiveness chiefly through
the stories they relate. In addition to communicating stories, leaders embody those
stories.”Howard Gardner, Leading Minds:
An Anatomy of Leadership
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“Stories of identity – narratives that help individuals think about
and feel who they are, where they come from, and where they
are headed – constitute the single most powerful weapon
in the leader’s arsenal.”Howard Gardner, Leading Minds: An
Anatomy of Leadership
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“Create a ‘Cause,’ not a ‘business.’
”Gary Hamel, Fortune (06.00), on re-inventing a
company (Exemplar #1: Charles Schwab)
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“As Ministers of The Republic of Tea, our
not-so-covert mission is to carry out a Tea
Revolution.”Ron Rubin & Stuart Avery Gold,
success@life
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“Our free and open immigration policies welcome all who wish to flee the tyranny of
coffee crazed lives and escape the frazzled fast paced race-to-stay-in-one-place existence that it fuels. In our tiny land, we have come to learn
that coffee is about speeding up and losing sight, while tea is about slowing down and
taking a look. Because tea is not just a beverage, it is a consciousness altering
substance that allows for a way of getting in touch with and taking pleasure from the beauty
and the wonder that life has to offer.”
Ron Rubin & Stuart Avery Gold, success@life
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“The real story at Cisco is about perception: convincing customers that it has an almost mystical insight into this New World of the Internet and that buying Cisco gear will rub some off that magic off on the buyer. (‘Buy from us and feel good about this wild and
crazy world of the Internet.’) It’s about a brand name that exudes aura and invincibility and solidity. IBM pulled off the same trick in the
sixties.”
Jeffrey Young, Cisco Unauthorized
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Brand Leadership: ENTHUSIASM RULES!
Ben Zander: “I am a dispenser of
enthusiasm.”
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“A leader is a dealer in hope.”
Napoleon
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“It was much later that I realized Dad’s secret. He gained respect by giving it. He
talked and listened to the fourth-grade kids in Spring Valley who shined shoes the same way he talked and listened to a
bishop or a college president. He was seriously interested in who you were and what you had to say.”
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Respect
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“In every class I teach, my ability to connect with my students, and to
connect them with the subject, depends less on the methods I use than on the degree to which I know
and trust my selfhood – and am willing to make it available and
vulnerable in the service of learning.”
Parker Palmer, The Courage to Teach
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“It is impossible to claim that all good teachers use similar techniques: some lecture nonstop
and others speak very little; some stay close to their material and others loose the imagination; some teach with the carrot and others with the
stick. But in every instance, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal
identity infuses their work. ‘Dr. A is really there when he teaches.’ Mr. B has such enthusiasm for his subject.’ You can tell that this is really
Prof. C’s life.’ ”
Parker Palmer, The Courage to Teach
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“One student said she could not describe her good teachers because
they differed so greatly, one from another. But she could describe her bad teachers because they were all
the same: ‘Their words float somewhere in front of their faces, like
the balloon speech in cartoons.’ ”
Parker Palmer, The Courage to Teach
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Message: Leadership is all about love! [Passion, Enthusiasms, Appetite for Life,
Engagement, Commitment, Great Causes & Determination to Make a
Damn Difference, Shared Adventures, Bizarre Failures, Growth, Insatiable
Appetite for Change.] [Otherwise, why bother? Just read Dilbert. TP’s final words: CYNICISM SUCKS.]
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“Let’s make a dent in the universe.”
Steve Jobs