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Building trust in uncertainty calls for alignment

Purpose-led leadership aligns people, planet and profit Purpose-led leaders agree that the role of a business is to create long-term value for all stakeholders, achieving the triple bottom line of people, planet and profit. This is alignment in its purest form – aligning customers, employees and key stakeholders around a common purpose, values and identity […]

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Find another way: remote work, workshops and research

Your brand can’t afford to avoid strategic and long-term brand-building for cost issues or whilst waiting it out for challenges to rectify. Within the parameters of remote work, there are ways to manage research, workshops and strategy, as long as you take the challenges into account throughout the process. As published in First 5000, Australia’s

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The Future is Bright for Business and Brands: Optimism makes life better

Part 4 of 4 on the importance of optimism in building brands and business, written for and appearing first in First 5000, the professional network for Australian mid-sized businesses.  When times are tough, businesses and brands can drive optimism by: helping people feel better about themselves and their lives; and helping people feel better about

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The Future is Bright for Business and Brands: Through the Lens of Optimism

Part 3 of 3 on the importance of optimism in building brands and business, written for and appearing first in First 5000, the professional network for Australian mid-sized businesses.  Look at your business and brand through the lens of optimism Working with Mid-sized Businesses and the larger end of Small Businesses, I understand that the

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The Future is Bright for Business and Brands: Optimism Attracts

Part 1 of 3 in “The Future is Bright for Business and Brands”, a thought piece for First 5000 on the importance of optimism in building business and brands.  Optimism Attracts In building brands that attract, retain and engage customers, employees and stakeholders to drive business results and raise brand value, we seek to achieve

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The Future is Bright for Business and Brands: Optimism Drives Long-term Value

Part 1 of 3 in “The Future is Bright for Business and Brands”, a thought piece for First 5000 on the importance of optimism in building business and brands.  Optimism Drives Long-term Value   With communities, the environment and the economy all negatively impacted by recent events, the outlook to the start of 2020 in

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10 themes driving brands and business into 2020 and beyond

Reset: 10 Themes Driving Brands & Business into the Next Decade

2020 is the dawn of a new decade. Rachel Bevans explores the top ten themes driving brands and business from the last decade into the next one. Written for First 5000 Introduction For many, 2019 has been in limbo. There have been organisation shake-ups, projects stalling and brands standing up for what they believe in,

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In it for the long term: business, brand and marketing strategy

Businesses need to invest in the long term or risk being stuck in an endless cycle of cash flow challenges. First published in First 5000. Short-term financial priorities rule the mind-set of many mid-sized business Having worked with mid-sized businesses, and evident in research by KPMG1 BDO2, Grant Thornton3 and the Australian Government Department of

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Criticizing the Competitor Does not Win Customer Trust

From years of research across multiple categories, in general, people don’t trust other people, brands or businesses that criticize the competitor. It doesn’t show great sportsmanship. And if you don’t have enough good to say about your own brand, without criticizing the competitor, then you have a problem. Banks Bashing Banks Over the weekend, I

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Be more human: The human centric organisation and experiences

First appearing in First5000 Why are humans orchestrating less than optimal human experiences?  Recently my feed has been inundated with articles talking about the need for organisations to become human centric and experiences to become more human. I shake my head and wonder where did it all go wrong? Why are humans orchestrating less than

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