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Interview

Courage Comes From the Word for Heart, and Other Things That Are Misinterpreted

Paul Polman on the training program that came before the strategy, why he refuses the word courageous for his own decisions, and the answer he gives marketers who
Financial report pages beside a calculator. Cover image for One in Seven: A CFO on Rewriting the Contract With Your Shareholder.
Interview

One in Seven: A CFO on Rewriting the Contract With Your Shareholder

The Adecco Group's chief financial officer on taking finance away from its desk, why a budget is a guardrail and not a bible, and the recruitment statistic he
Cover of Grab Them by the Heart: How Real Beauty Got Approved
Interview

Grab Them by the Heart: How Real Beauty Got Approved

Silvia Lagnado on the film that changed an executive committee's mind, a company founded fifty years ago to make a difference, and what she thinks has and has
Cover of Jim Stengel on the Missing Third of Purpose
Interview

Jim Stengel on the Missing Third of Purpose

The former P&G global marketing officer argues that purpose has been found and activated but never measured, and that this is why the skeptics remain.
Cover of Antonio Lucio on Purpose, Platforms and the Diversity Playbook
Interview

Antonio Lucio on Purpose, Platforms and the Diversity Playbook

The CMO of Facebook talks to Marc de Swaan Arons about stakeholder convergence, finding a company's founding purpose, and what he says marketers can actually control.
Analytics dashboard on a large monitor. Cover image for The Hungry Monster: Investing in Data Two Years Before It Pays.
Interview

The Hungry Monster: Investing in Data Two Years Before It Pays

Oxford's professor of marketing on the questions a leader should ask a vendor, why a chat bot cannot be switched on, and the advertising algorithm that would quietly
Job candidate interview across an office desk. Cover image for Poets and Plumbers: The Search Consultant Who Named the Da Vinci CMO.
Interview

Poets and Plumbers: The Search Consultant Who Named the Da Vinci CMO

Greg Welch has run more than six hundred senior searches. He describes what actually happens inside one, why the top five things on a CMO's list often do
Cover of I'd Love to See the Business Case for the Alternative
Interview

I’d Love to See the Business Case for the Alternative

Keith Weed walks through ten years of the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan: how the strategy was built, how it was communicated to 90,000 people in person, and what
Report

What Marketing Leaders Said the Pandemic Reset

Poll results and discussion notes from a May 2020 session, recording where leaders thought their companies had become more human centric and what they expected to stick.