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Agility, clarity, sincerity, and WE before ME define game play today

by Anne Bahr Thompson | Aug 24, 2020 | Brand leadership, Featured, Political branding, Reputation management, Trends and cultural shifts

As featured in Medium on 3 July, 2020; and Business Fights Poverty on 7 July, 2020. The most successful businesses have always continuously evolved to stay relevant and remain competitive. Yet sometimes it takes a crisis to jolt our best intentions into action....

From Brand Activism to Brand Leadership in the wake of Parkland

by Anne Bahr Thompson | Mar 15, 2018 | Brand Citizenship®, Brand leadership, Political branding, Reputation management, Trends and cultural shifts

Profound changes in cultural sentiment are shifting the role business plays in addressing social issues at an accelerating rate. Companies across industries are stepping up and taking stances on issues typically considered outside their realm. Brands have...

Millennials: Humor them

by Onesixtyfourth | Nov 20, 2012 | Featured, Generational cohorts & differences, How we live, Political branding

It was Nick Shore’s MTV Insights Article “Q: What’s the Opposite of Nirvana?” that led me to question the role humor plays in the lives of Millennials and explore a bit more about how marketers are using comedy to capture our attention. “As someone charged with...

Obama: hopeful about America

by Anne Bahr Thompson | Sep 8, 2012 | Featured, Movements, Political branding, Reputation management

Hope. What follows it? Especially when you’ve yet to achieve the things you set out to do. Faith. Gratitude. Humility. Action. Although in the run-up to the DNC Barack Obama’s campaigning had lost the spirit of the brand he built in 2008, the messaging at the...

Brand Mitt: will he shape the 2012 political debate?

by Anne Bahr Thompson | Sep 1, 2012 | Featured, Movements, Political branding, Reputation management

In October 2008, Barack Obama won Ad Age’s Marketer of the Year, beating Apple, Zappo’s, Nike, and Coors.  He then went on to win the White House in great part because of his carefully crafted brand.  Obama’s message – hope and change – was simple and consistently...

Millennials and Libertarian ideals

by Ron Thompson | Aug 18, 2012 | Featured, Generational cohorts & differences, Movements, Political branding

With the Presidential election fast approaching, politics have been top of mind for many of the Millennials we’ve been speaking to in the US through CultureQ.  In research last December, many started to express Libertarian-like ideals, mostly in response to...

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