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Outlines the importance of brand story and explains why a planning discipline that defines a brand in order to guide what it makes, beyond what it says, is increasingly valuable.

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In 2016, heads of planning from creative agencies across America gathered for a leadership forum with an unusually dramatic theme: 'What's broken in planning?' It was as much fun as the theme suggested.

Leaders agonised as they weighed their own conviction in the value of the discipline, and their place in the hierarchy, against the forces deconstructing it. After hours of hand-wringing, a provocative insight from moderator Mark Earls, HERDmeister and former planner, broke the...

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