Howard Schultz: Chairmain, CEO, and President of Starbucks
Why Does Dark Matter Matter?
Scientists tell us that only about 4% of the energy density in the universe can be seen directly. The other 96% is made up of dark matter and dark energy, which are almost impossible to see, and very hard to measure. Yet it's the dark matter and dark energy making the stars, planets, and galaxies go 'round.
Brand, Culture, and Community are the dark matter of corporations and organizations. Hard to measure, hard to quantify. This blog is dedicated to the 96%. We'll leave the rest to experts...
Brand, Culture, and Community are the dark matter of corporations and organizations. Hard to measure, hard to quantify. This blog is dedicated to the 96%. We'll leave the rest to experts...
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Chris Grams is a partner at New Kind, a strategic communications, design, and strategy firm.
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Top Posts
- Brand positioning tip #1: points of parity and points of difference
- Reporting live from the front lines of the war on creativity
- Brand positioning tip #2: the competitive frame of reference
- Brand positioning tip #3: the brand mantra
- Brand positioning tip #5: the brand audit
- Howard Schultz of Starbucks: The role of culture in a crisis
- Brand naming strategy: branded house or house of brands?
- Brand and human resources in one department? Are you nuts?
- Tom Sawyer, whitewashing fences, and building communities online
- Brand positioning tip #6: build peninsulas, not islands
Meanwhile, on Twitter:
- [DarkMatterMatters] Reporting live from the front lines of the war on creativity http://bit.ly/9tKiwH 2 hours ago
- new blog post from #iei2010 "Reporting live from the front lines of the war on creativity" http://bit.ly/ddhUm5 3 hours ago
- RT @ashevillegrown: RT @ncstage: Nnenna just said her grandmother told her "bloom where you are planted". My mom says that too. #iei2010 5 hours ago
- RT @jonathanopp: Kelley: "vuja de" being in the same place you've seen a million times, but seeing it with new eyes. #iei2010 7 hours ago
- Kelley quoting Paul saffo "I don't know who discovered water, but I'm sure it was not a fish." #iei2010 7 hours ago
On the New Kind blog:
- Building a practice out of building communitiesLately we've been working with the public sector on some community building efforts. In a recent session we introduced a team to open source principles, general use of collaborative web technologies, and the latest on-line civic participation work. Then, we asked them to do some searching on their own for ...
- Design policy presentation and video featured on SlideshareAs some of you know, I care a great deal about the U.S National Design Policy Initiative. From a previous post: The Initiative exists to encourage the government’s use of design in order to improve U.S. democratic governance and economic competitiveness. Simply put, a national design policy offers a unified vision for how ...
- Chris Grams Joins New KindWe are excited to announce that Chris Grams has joined New Kind as President and Partner. Chris has over 15 years of experience in the communications field, including 10 years at Red Hat, the world's leading open source software company. The open source way—including themes like openness, collaboration, transparency, community, ...


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