Do Good: Embracing Brand Citizenship to Fuel Both Purpose and Profit by Anne Bahr Thompson
With more than 25 years of experience as a global brand strategist, Anne is an accomplished researcher, writer and speaker, and the pioneer of the strategic framework of Brand Citizenship.
A former executive director of strategy and planning and head of consulting at Interbrand, the world’s leading brand consultancy, Anne founded Onesixtyfourth, a boutique consultancy, to integrate cultural shifts and a social conscience into brand development.
Her writings have appeared in hbr.org, The Guardian, Bloomberg News, and many other publications.
The Host’s Perspective:
Consumer expectations of brands continues to rise.
They want the companies they do business with to not only “do good” and make the world a better place, but also to advocate on their behalf and make them feel as though they are part of a larger community or grander mission.
Customers are calling for, yearning for–and paying for–a new business ethos that’s called Brand Citizenship.
Over more than twenty years as a Fortune 500 global brand strategist and researcher, Thompson observed people continuously expecting more from brands and has coined the term Brand Citizenship.
Years of investigation dedicated to deconstructing the shifting elements of brand leadership, corporate citizenship, and favorite brands through extensive research confirmed that customers unequivocally are demanding more value, more service, better ethics, and a greater focus on sustainability and social good.
Do Good documents this sea change and explains how to embed social consciousness into a company’s DNA.
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Show Notes
Do Good: Embracing Brand Citizenship to Fuel Both Purpose and Profit by Anne Bahr Thompson
Trouble with Advertising by John O’Toole
In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies by Tom Peters
A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing by Burton Malkiel
The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization by Jon Katzenbach
Leading the Revolution: How to Thrive in Turbulent Times by Making Innovation a Way of Life by Gary Hamel
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard Thaler
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by General Stanley McChrystal
A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order by Richard Haass
Anne Bahr Thompson (LinkedIn)
Brandcitizenship.com (Book Website)
Onesixtyforth.com (Anne Bahr Thompson’s Consultancy)
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