Publications
Studies, playbooks, reports, articles, and practical frameworks from the Institute for Real Growth.
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Why we do what we do, how we do it, and with whom
A week before the Marketing2030 launch, Marc steps back from the findings to the people and organizations behind them: a room where nobody is selling anything, and the
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Enterprise Growth: Beyond Marketing
The Phase Two findings: winning companies are running two engines at once, an AI-powered efficiency engine and a human-powered business engine — and Marketing’s opportunity lies in what
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Six M2030 Growth Paradoxes
Marketing2030 began by reading more than 250 studies and reports. It found six contradictions leaders now face at once — and they are balances to hold, not choices
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Why Marketing2030?
A week in a former monastery, a chapter of Jonathan Sacks, and a question business used to answer without thinking: who does a company exist to serve? The
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The Marketing Leader Who Operates Like a CEO
How marketing leaders at Diageo, Unilever, GSK and American Express built standing across the enterprise, and why chief executive is treated as the next promotion.
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Building Marketing Capability, Then Letting Go
What a global marketing organization has to build — shared language, skills, planning tools — before it can hand a concept to a local team and step back.
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Structure Follows Strategy in Global Marketing
Role clarity, not role breadth, is what makes a global marketing organization work — with the benchmarking numbers, four models for the center, and the rules that make
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Focus, Funding and the Second Year
Where long-horizon brand work loses to short-term spend, why the second year decides a launch, and what shared metrics between global and local teams change.
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Inspiration as a Discipline of Brand Leadership
Inspiration handled as a management discipline: the purpose, the tight brief, and the internal engagement work that releases energy most organizations never ask for.