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Kenan Samms
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The “New” G.M. Sounds Dangerously Like the Old, Dead Saturn

“The General Motors Corporation today displayed the prototype of a small car intended to someday match similar Japanese cars in cost and match or exceed them in quality.”So wrote The New York Times on November 4th, 1983.  And ...READ»

Kenan Samms
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Starbucks Flees From its Brand, Yet Again

Last Friday at 6AM Starbucks officially re-acknowledged its brand limits. With the opening of “15th Avenue Coffee & Tea” in Seattle, the company has gone public with the admission that it requires a new, Mata ...READ»

Kenan Samms

The New GM, Clueless as the Old GM

Hey you - a 60% owner of General Motors.  Are you worried about the innovative dynamism of the post-bankruptcy, government-owned GM?  Are you anxious about whether they are truly committed to excellence? Have no fear, ...READ»

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Opinion Exhaustion: Skittles, President Obama, and the Assault of Everyone

Something new is happening on Skittles.com. The company isn't putting its real estate to work as a marketing platform--singing the vast and socially beneficial aspects of Skittles. Instead, they have turned their homepage over ...READ»

Kenan Samms
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Why it Took an Entrepreneur to Make America Flip Over the Flip (And Why it Would have Flopped Inside any Big Company)

Is it at all possible for simplicity to emerge from the twisted processes of the corporate mind?  I asked myself this question (again) after reading last week about Cisco’s purchase of Pure Digital, the company behind ...READ»

Kenan Samms
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Mediocrity: The Hidden Economic Price of Fear

 I’ve been haunted by a story I read in the New York Times business section a week or so ago. Dr. Gregory Berns, who runs the Center for Neuropolicy at Emory University, cooked up an experiment to determine what fear does to our ...READ»

Kenan Samms
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The New Accountability: Felix Unger Will Stop Paying for Oscar Madison

There was a story in a recent Wall Street Journal about a new technology that lets insurance companies reward safe drivers with “deep discounts.” Progressive and GMAC will be rolling out a digital back seat driver that tracks ...READ»

Kenan Samms

FIGHTTHESMEARS.COM: WHAT MARKETERS CAN LEARN FROM THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN

Politicians used to take their lead from marketers.  It was the Madison Avenue image-factory that led the way, teaching consultants and candidates how to shape their advertising, how to use sophisticated tools of persuasion to ...READ»

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