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Beware Marketing and Creative Superstars

Stop your fawning, and invest in process as much as in people. A few weeks back at a CIA base in Afghanistan,  a lone Jordanian doctor/double agent managed to blow up seven highly trained CIA operatives, including the base chief. How did he get so close to so many important people? There appear to be several [...]
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Celebrity endorsements can be deadly

Harnessing a big name can be a big asset or a big problem. A few years back we worked on the Green Belt Movement’s fundraising materials. One of our goals was to manage founder and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Wangari Maathai’s growing celebrity presence vis-à-vis the organization. Maathai might inspire, but donors actually gave to the [...]
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