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Killing America’s brands, one lousy C.E.O. at a time.

Posted in 2009, account planning, adaptation, arrogance, bad management, bonehead moves, brand culture, brand erosion, brand insights, brand planning, brand relevance, brand strategy, brand valuation, brands, broken brand, bullshit, bureaucracy, business, clueless, collaboration, common sense, compensation, competition, corporate culture, customer relationship, denial, differentiation, efficiency, employee morale, expectations, growth, idiocracy, incompetence, innovation, leaders, leadership, management, management lessons, market disruption, mediocrity, nepotism, nonsense, opportunity, performance, poor leadership, product design, product development, promises, purpose, relevance, setting goals, steve jobs, success, T-shaped, tactics, team building, the death of a brand, the great dumbing-down of America, value proposition, vision, vs., when things go wrong, wisdom, tagged black-widow CEO, brandbuilder, caretaker manager, CEO, chrysler, GM, leaders vs. managers, Nardelli, olivier blanchard, rob frankel, Wagoner on March 31, 2009 | 68 Comments »

How “Black Widow” C.E.O.s and Caretaker Managers are choking the life out of the world’s most profitable brands: Fellow brand guy Rob Frankel and I don’t always agree on everything, but more often than not, he an I find ourselves on the same side of the fence, shaking our heads at corporate execs who somehow [...]

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