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Listening is active. At its most basic level, it's about focus, paying attention.


Simon Sinek

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SIMON MAINWARING Ensure your employees understand what your brand stands for so they can be your first line of word-o...
SIMON MAINWARING Not since the digital revolution in the early '90s has technology placed such a comprehensive bu...
SIMON MAINWARING For a truly effective social campaign, a brand needs to embrace the first principles of marketing, w...
SIMON MAINWARING More brands are waking up to their social responsibility and doing good work through cause marketing...
SIMON MAINWARING We need to develop and disseminate an entirely new paradigm and practice of collaboration that super...
SIMON MAINWARING Brands are facing a new competitive landscape in which self-definition, core values and purpose will...
SIMON MAINWARING Brands are faced with the daily challenge of massively scaling their outreach in order to build pers...
SIMON MAINWARING Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation and consen...
SIMON MAINWARING Companies and their brands need to reach out and speak directly to consumers, to honor their values,...
SIMON MAINWARING More and more companies are reaching out to their suppliers and contractors to work jointly on issue...
SIMON MAINWARING Define what your brand stands for, its core values and tone of voice, and then communicate consisten...
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