The Power of the Big Brand Idea for Business Leaders
In today's fast-paced and crowded business landscape, standing out from the competition has become more challenging than ever. Clutter is...
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Matt Davies
- Sep 5
- 2 min
Your Next Leadership Offsite
Hey Leader 👋 As we approach the final quarter of 2023, your leadership team's ability to rally, align, and strategise for 2024+ is more...
Matt Davies
- Jul 24
- 6 min
The Power of Assumption Flipping
In today's fiercely competitive business landscape, standing out is not just an option; it's a flipping necessity ('scuse the pun!). As a...
Matt Davies
- Apr 13
- 5 min
Culture - connecting brands to employees
A business’ culture is the collective behaviours, customs & beliefs, of its people. Put simply its “the way we do things around here”....
Matt Davies
- Mar 31
- 1 min
Branding & Culture - Branders Magazine
Way too often the strategic principles of brand are not used to fuel decision making in an organisation. From the macro to the micro...
Matt Davies
- Mar 13
- 1 min
VIDEO: How to Build Workplace Cultures that People Want to be a Part Of
I'm getting asked more and more by my clients to help them consciously design their workplace culture. But where do you start? How do you...
Matt Davies
- Nov 25, 2022
- 4 min
The three levels of culture
Culture is a tricky beast. Easy to talk about. Hard to create. I come across many leaders who have huge ambitions for their businesses....
Matt Davies
- Oct 31, 2022
- 7 min
The Global Brand Strategy
I’m often asked about how brands should plan for international growth. It's always a tricky question to answer because every industry and...
Matt Davies
- Aug 27, 2021
- 3 min
The one slide Brand Strategy
Building brand’s is hard work. Your “brand” consists of the meaning people attach to you and your offer. “Branding” is the attempt to...
Matt Davies
- Jun 22, 2021
- 4 min
Book review/recommendation: The Culture Map
For all of those business leaders out there looking to navigate global management dynamics I can do no better than to recommend the...
Matt Davies
- Apr 12, 2021
- 8 min
Brand behaviours. How to live your brand purpose and values
When I say things like “Purpose” and “Values” I can almost imagine the sigh of exasperation that some of my readers will be exhaling. To...
Matt Davies
- Jan 26, 2021
- 2 min
Branding is glue.
"Glue (noun) -
something that binds together" Merriam-Webster Dictionary. I define a brand as "the meaning people attach to you and your...
Matt Davies
- Dec 18, 2020
- 4 min
My Most Popular Posts of 2020
2020. Flip! What a year! One thing I’ve tried to do though is to continue to blog through it all. At the start (BC - the time Before...
Matt Davies
- Feb 18, 2020
- 4 min
Understanding Change Reaction with the Change Curve
Major changes are not normally undertaken by us unless we are challenged. We tend to like routine and what we know. We don’t like...
Matt Davies
- Jan 14, 2020
- 5 min
A tool to measure & increase employee value
Branding is the management of meaning. That meaning exists in the hearts and minds of your customers… AND your staff. Your employees will...
Matt Davies
- Nov 15, 2019
- 5 min
For things to change. we have to change.
Change is everywhere. Brexit. Elections. Society. The economy. Digitalisation. Transformation. Robotics. Automation. Technology. Your...
Matt Davies
- Oct 16, 2019
- 7 min
5 Steps to designing a company culture programme
Culture in modern business is everything. With a choice of places to work, top talent is now demanding workplaces which fit with their...
Matt Davies
- Sep 13, 2019
- 5 min
Purpose - the essential secret to brand building
A ‘Purpose Statement’. A crisply defined reason why you do what we do. Is it just a fluffy ‘nice to have’? I think not. Why? Because...
Matt Davies
- Aug 27, 2019
- 6 min
Do brands really live their values? This tool helps them do so.
There is a disconnect. As a brand consultant, one of the main things I find is a disengagement between the employees of an organisation...
Matt Davies
- Jul 25, 2019
- 6 min
7 questions on branding & culture
Culture is the inward expression of a brand. It's how your people are set up to succeed. As customer experience is becoming more and more...
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