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Welcome to: “I Beg to Differ”

An irreverent series for marketers, builders, leaders, and thinkers. Not always right, but always forthright! — When I wonder, did the marketing and customer experience people lose their mojo? There is an almost cheerleader culture in the ranks, where we repeat catchphrases, slogans, and mantras without stopping to think. It’s as if, someone ran off with our brain. Well, I beg to differ! Do you like…

Marketing

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Welcome to: “I Beg to Differ”
Welcome to: “I Beg to Differ”
Marketing

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·Mar 16, 2022

Are Drug Dealers More Trustworthy Than Brands?

The socially unacceptable truth — I don’t know about you, but I only dabbled in silly substances in my youth. I like to think I was too smart to get sucked into anything that dumb, which I hope I have passed on to my boys. But also, I was scared of it. Still am. It…

Marketing

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Are Drug Dealers More Trustworthy Than Brands?
Are Drug Dealers More Trustworthy Than Brands?
Marketing

9 min read


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·Jan 5, 2022

The Good, The Bad, and The Fugly: 2021 Edition

The Annual Musings of the Discombobulated — 2021, the second full year right after the decade that redefined so much of what we should be focussed on in the customer professions, has gone. Through the fogginess of COVID that engulfed these last 2 years, it is easy to lose sight of what actually happened. And I’m not…

Marketing

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The Good, The Bad, and The Fugly: 2021 Edition
The Good, The Bad, and The Fugly: 2021 Edition
Marketing

13 min read


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·Dec 2, 2021

The Real Cost of Failing to Report the Customer Franchise in Corporate Risk Registers

The business blindspot & the lost fuel of marketing maturity — Prologue Not many of my readers will know that I spent a portion of my career advising companies on risk. From tech risk consultancy, and later leading the business risk advisory practice at the world’s largest broker, running behavioural risk research (where I first fell in love with behavioural economics) …

Marketing

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The Real Cost of Failing to Report the Customer Franchise in Corporate Risk Registers
The Real Cost of Failing to Report the Customer Franchise in Corporate Risk Registers
Marketing

9 min read


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·Nov 15, 2021

The Moral Highground is Still a Prerequisite for Leadership

Nations, Corporations, Executives, and Brands — Do you remember, as a child, dreaming of the things you would do? Do you remember the imagery you had of yourself, of the hero, or the force for good that you would be? Children have a sharp sense of justice and an even sharper rejection of injustice. …

Leadership

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The Moral Highground is Still a Prerequisite for Leadership
The Moral Highground is Still a Prerequisite for Leadership
Leadership

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·Oct 8, 2021

The Hidden Fight of Transformation

The big problem that no one talks about — “The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is: you DO NOT talk about Fight Club!” As the boards of organizations across industries as far afield as banking and insurance, to retail, media, utilities, and telco all grapple…

Change

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The Hidden Fight of Transformation
The Hidden Fight of Transformation
Change

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·Sep 15, 2021

Making Industries Safe — The Calling of our Generation

The Marketing Playbook for Big Tobacco, Dirty Coal, and Digital Advertising is Depressingly Similar — If you’re a parent, you will have noticed those signs at playgrounds, telling oblivious children to “Play with Caution”. No one expects kids to read them of course. Such signs are erected mainly to ensure liabilities have been denied, or limited, and insurance premiums modeled down. …

Marketing

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Making Industries Safe — The Calling of our Generation
Making Industries Safe — The Calling of our Generation
Marketing

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·Sep 1, 2021

Empathy is Not a Strategy

Marketing’s latest misdirection — Needy. It’s a word you’ve probably heard. You could have even used it yourself, in which case you’ll be imaginging a deeply insecure person who places undue pressure on relationships, usually as they look for acceptance or belonging. The more cruel colloquialism, usually found in the world of dating, may…

Marketing

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Empathy is Not a Strategy
Empathy is Not a Strategy
Marketing

5 min read


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·Aug 12, 2021

The Four Patterns of Growth

Lessons for business and marketing leadership — I played a lot of rugby as a kid. A lot. I played all the way into my late teens, stopped for a while to study, work, live, drink, and fall over, and then hankering for the days of my youth, I played a season again in my early thirties. …

Growth

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The Four Patterns of Growth
The Four Patterns of Growth
Growth

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·Updated Oct 15, 2021

A Futures Triangle for the Marketing Profession

The Pull of the Future, The Push of the Present, The Weight of the Past — When you look around at the world, at society, and at the technological tidal wave consuming us, you are likely to fall into one of two camps. The sheer pace and potential of it all may have you giddy with excitement. …

Marketing

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A Futures Triangle for the Marketing Profession
A Futures Triangle for the Marketing Profession
Marketing

8 min read

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