Brand Culture

Brand vision is intention. It can be a single-minded intent, or a group of goals and objectives — typically no more than one, two or three.

There’s an old saying that change is the only constant in business. If the coronavirus pandemic has taught us anything, it is to remind us of the enduring truth of this adage and of the fundamental imperative for companies to keep learning. Companies master change only by keeping up and adapting as conditions evolve. Today’s knowledge won’t help with tomorrow’s challenges. Only organizations that put a premium on learning will survive, much less thrive. Yet learning is given short shrift by most companies.

Today’s organizations — be they B2B, non-profit, government or consumer – live and die by their ability to build and deliver a strong employer brand that earns the trust and loyalty of their employees. If your external brand is the sum of all the experiences that someone has with your organization, then that is true of your employer brand too.

In June 2018, after three days of intense competition and only a single event to go, the Women’s NCAA National Outdoor Track and Field Championship title remained up for grabs. The top three teams were separated by less than ten points. Sitting in third place, the University of Southern California Trojans were still in the running, but their path to victory was narrow. To win they needed nothing short of a first-place finish in the final event of the meet, the 4 × 400-meter relay.

A post on Medium from Amazon Employees for Climate Justice shares more than 350 statements from workers that focus on the company’s climate practices.