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The book is: Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of American Business.
Dan Kennedy • No B.S. Ruthless Management of People and Profits: No Holds Barred, Kick Butt, Take-No-Prisoners Guide to Really Getting Rich
The Business of Expertise: How Entrepreneurial Experts Convert Insight to Impact + Wealth
David C. Baker • 6 highlights
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To systematically build iconic brands, companies must reinvent their marketing function. They must assemble cultural knowledge, rather than knowledge about individual consumers. They must strategize according to cultural branding principles, rather than apply the abstracted and present-tense mind-share model. And they must hire and train cultural... See more
Douglas Holt • Branding as Cultural Activism
Second, I’m reflecting on a point former Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale famously made in 1995: “There are only two ways to make money in business: bundling and unbundling.” I think we’re burnt out by the fragmentation that the D2C era brought to everything. After subscribing to tons of hyper-niche content over the years, the idea of a couple brands we... See more