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EP.31
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Adam Morgan
What Tom Ford, Nike, and monsters can teach us about brand building
In Episode #31, Ross is joined by the man who literally wrote the book on challenger brands — Adam Morgan.
Adam is the founder of international brand consultancy eatbigfish, the world’s leading expert on Challenger Brands. He’s written four books, each of which detail inspiration and frameworks for ambitious challengers.
Ross and Adam get into what real collaboration means and its potential, why you should worry less about your competitors and more about the difference you make in the world, and how constraints help us build braver brands.
Highlights
Most of my clients didn't embrace collaboration in a deep way, there was shallow collaboration. But that wasn't really about genuine collaboration.
Working with your competitors is going to get you there faster
Brand owners have misunderstood the degree to which people care or don't care about them
That ambition is too important for me to suppress. I need to step back and reconsider how I'm going to deliver that ambition under that constraint
Constraints seem to spur them on. They're more open to braver design – they have to pop out, they can't fall into that sea of sameness.
It's less about challenging somebody. It's more about challenging something – something in the category, something in contemporary culture.
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