Category: Growth

  • Making Growth a Habit:  Clarifying Marketing’s Role and Focus Drives Alignment and Results

    Making Growth a Habit:  Clarifying Marketing’s Role and Focus Drives Alignment and Results

    CMOs are in a unique position to create natural, lasting alignment among the key functions required for growth. By tackling an issue I see as the biggest hindrance to effective marketing – a lack of strategic focus in marketing and a resulting deterioration of the function – CMOs can set…

  • Magical Thinking: Let Your Marketing Move Beyond It

    Magical Thinking: Let Your Marketing Move Beyond It

    Magical thinking: The belief that actions will produce certain outcomes without evidence to suggest they will. Magical thinking is a common human phenomenon. While it’s often associated with superstitious thought, it isn’t limited to such obvious examples. Individuals make decisions every day based on hope, fear, faith, and other guiding…