The Monday Brief
The week’s developments that matter to a marketing leader, sorted and explained.
Monday Briefing: Apple's Safari Update Blocks The Trade DeskFrameworks for the hardest job in marketing
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One original framework on the practice and politics of running marketing.
The Decisions You Both Think You OwnMore deep dives
All articles →- The Decisions You Both Think You Own Marketing is primarily responsible for pricing at 28.2% of companies and revenue growth at 42.5%. The middle of that list is where two executives both think they decide.
- Has Your Purpose Ever Lost an Argument? A values page with no decision behind it is copy.
- The Bonus That Killed Blockbuster Antioco earned 200% of his 2006 target bonus under the board's own numbers. The board paid him none of it.
- Pick Your P&L A budget is something the company gives you. A number is something it needs back from you. Only one of those survives a bad quarter.
- Nobody Gets Fired for Cutting Brand Everyone in that room already agrees brand works. They cut it anyway, because the structure pays them to.