Pain Points & Passion Points

Why AI-Optimized Brands Risk Destroying Customer Value

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August 2025

Why Corporate Rebranding Keeps Failing

How to Prevent Your Organization Wasting Millions On Rebranding And Getting Fired

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July 2025

THIS HOTEL ROOM IS ABSOLUTELY PERFECT

When Perfection Becomes Perfectly Wrong

Jul 19 • 

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June 2025

The Demise of Single-State Brands Part 4

For Brands To Become More Valuable They Need To Become More Useful

Jun 19 • 

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May 2025

The Demise of Single-State Brands Part 3

The Three Laws of Quantum Brands: How Leading Brands Are Rewriting The Rules of Customer Value Creation

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April 2025

Quantum Brands

How the Physics of The Experience Economy Are Reshaping The Calculus of Customer Value Creation (Part 2)

Apr 22 • 

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Quantum Brands

How the Physics of The Experience Economy Are Reshaping The Calculus of Brand Value Creation

Apr 16 • 

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March 2025

Beyond The Drama

What The White Lotus Gets Right And Wrong About Today’s Luxury Hospitality Industry

Mar 27 • 

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AI is Rewriting the Rules of Brand Strategy

Why the Future Belongs to the Meijin Masters

Mar 6 • 

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February 2025

The Rise of Intelligent Brands

How AI is Transforming Brands from Promise Maker to Consumer Co-Pilot

Feb 13 • 

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January 2025

Abandoned By Its Angels

How LA's Culture of Extreme Optimism Created A Tinder Box of Devastating Vulnerability

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October 2024

Protagonist Brands

The Hidden Multiple: How Cultural Capital is Rewriting Valuation Models

Oct 24, 2024 • 

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