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Where brand drift begins — and what leaders can do about it.

Perspectives on brand integrity, leadership alignment, growth, and organizational change — examining the upstream decisions that shape what customers, employees, and markets eventually experience downstream.

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Kim Anderson

Your brand problem is sitting in the wrong department

Brand drift compounds quietly and shows up as longer sales cycles, higher churn, and awkward diligence calls. The fix sits above the CMO.

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Sep 23, 2026

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Stop saying “Brand” in the boardroom

The word brand gets filed in the marketing drawer. Try talking about sales cycles, retention, and time to hire instead.

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Sep 23, 2026

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Five questions that show whether your brand is holding together

Five questions to ask in your next leadership meeting. They take ten minutes and tell you whether your brand is holding together.

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