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Brand Surgery ? excerpts from my Marketing Magazine article | In.

In the CEO Afterlife

These executives and their CEOs have been so preoccupied with the management mania of the day (years back it was TQM, then right-sizing and now Internet solutions) that their eye has been off the heartbeat of the consumer goods business. The role has been relegated to middle managers who are brand custodians, not leaders in innovation.

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