• Why Your AI Needs Your Brand Story

    Why Your AI Needs Your Brand Story

    AI execution relies on human clarity, making a brand’s strategic narrative the ultimate context layer for autonomous agents. Without a codified story to guide them, AI tools operate in the dark, scaling messaging confusion and operational failure at machine speed.

  • Trillionaire Mindset: The Storytelling Strategy Behind Elon Musk’s Success

    Trillionaire Mindset: The Storytelling Strategy Behind Elon Musk’s Success

    OpenAI’s founding in 2015 was Musk’s direct response to what he saw as an existential problem. He saw how Google had monopolized the way the world searched for information, and Musk believed AI was the future of not just search but human information itself. It was too significant a technology for one company to control…

  • The StoryKernel: Woden’s Strategic Narrative Framework

    The StoryKernel: Woden’s Strategic Narrative Framework

    Woden’s nine-part storytelling framework is the foundation of an efficient customer journey.

  • Sock It to Me

    Sock It to Me

    Today’s customers believe that you are what you buy.

  • A Story That’s Stalled Out

    A Story That’s Stalled Out

    Instead of chasing short-term fixes like bag fees or assigned seats, Southwest needs to redefine and recommit to its story

  • You Are What You Buy

    You Are What You Buy

    In commoditized industries, the stories brands tell have become as vital as the products they sell.

  • Baseball’s Back, As Inconsistent As Ever

    Baseball’s Back, As Inconsistent As Ever

    When a brand stays true to its core values, it builds sustainability for its customers and target audience.

  • Manufacturing Mythology

    Manufacturing Mythology

    Plenty of modern businesses operate like prehistory’s early humans: they talk only about literal, physical things—their products—and wonder why such messaging fails to draw in customers at the rate they need to thrive.

  • Don’t Slack on Story

    Don’t Slack on Story

    Slack demonstrates how a strong brand story can drive product adoption and customer loyalty.

  • The Company(ies) We Keep

    The Company(ies) We Keep

    Relationships people form with brands are inextricable from identity

  • The Medicine of Marketing

    The Medicine of Marketing

    For those seeking job security, it might be best to avoid the role of Chief Marketing Officer. Difficulty proving effectiveness may have something to do with the revolving door of CMOs.

  • Kill Your Darlings

    Kill Your Darlings

    When Your Brand Becomes the Monster It Set Out to Destroy.