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Sharon McCarthy
Nov 21, 2022
Reviving a Stale Brand: Burger King
1. RECLAIM A LEGACY IF RELEVANT In 1974, Burger King launched “Have It Your Way," an exceptionally successful ad campaign. It blunted...


Sharon McCarthy
Oct 26, 2022
The Most Influential Person in Fashion You've Never Heard Of -- What We Can Learn From Him
He owned the company where I got my first job, as a business analyst in the back office in Secaucus. The team represented the OG rainbow...


Sharon McCarthy
Oct 4, 2022
Reviving a Stale Brand -- The 7 Pillars of a Modern Brand, Updated
It’s day one. You are now responsible for a brand you inherited. Year-over-year transactions are down, your team has been discounting to...


Sharon McCarthy
Apr 25, 2022
Find More Wins Faster
Experiments are the new assembly line for business, dramatically reducing the cost and time to produce a new product or service. In the...


Sharon McCarthy
Oct 27, 2020
What would YOU do?
Gap's CEO is right. In a recent Wall Street Journal story, Gap's CEO, Sonia Syngal, said fashion is an art AND a science, a right, and a...


Sharon McCarthy
Mar 20, 2020
8 Tips for Marketing in the New Now
The best marketing delivers the right message to the right customer at the right time. This principle has never been more important. Sell...

Sharon McCarthy
Mar 7, 2019
Strategy or Tactic: What's the Difference?
Do you know the difference between a strategy and a tactic? Turns out, most executives don't. In his Strategic Thinking Manifesto, Rich...


Sharon McCarthy
Jan 29, 2019
11 Ways to Free Up Time to Think Strategically
In a recent survey of 10,000 executives, 97 percent of them reported that being strategic was most important to their organization’s...
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