Demystifying brand Stories

By David Mills
on November 25, 2014

The word "story" has become a buzz-word in the last couple of years. Everyone seems to be using the vague concept of story in reference to marketing strategy and brand equity. But, what is story in a professional context?

Is Failure in the Story You Tell? Maybe it Should Be.

By David Mills
on June 24, 2014

You can get to know a company, department or organization by the stories they tell.

Failure isn't usually the topic of most organizational stories, but maybe it should be.

Marketers Ruin Everything: How to Become a Storyteller

By David Mills
on May 13, 2014

Being in business or organizational leadership doesn't leave us room to be romantic about the way we wish the world would behave. That romantic view of the world causes us to hesitate in moving into new marketing and communication realities because we are too busy observing how we wish things would "not be." We want the methods that we have learned to work and continue working. But the truth is, things have changed.