Insight from Lord Coe on tackling big challenges

Its unlikely any of us will ever have to face a challenge as big as putting on the Olympics. But as Lord Coe showed last night, at the Marketing Society Annual Lecture, there is still much to learn for the rest of us, whether our challenges be about transforming brands, launching new products, or building our teams. He walked…

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Now That’s What I Call Great Marketing? Back to basics!

Thanks to the Marketing Society for an interesting evening – a combination of ‘what makes great marketing’ and ‘how to win a marketing society award’. For those of us not entering, we were there to hear any gems from the 4 esteemed speakers – Fiona McAnena of BUPA, Chris Macleod of TfL, Sarah Speake of Google, Ian Armstrong of…

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Between the lines of the Unilever brand story

At last week’s Marketing Society Conference – a day of Global Leadership discussions – we were treated to a very well put together and powerfully delivered talk from Keith Weed, CMO at Unilever. The headlines, reported succintly in today’s Marketing magazine (7 Dec), focus on how they are embedding sustainability in the business, not having separate CSR, and how…

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