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how long can a rebranding go

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2013.10.01

We put the finishing touches on a rebranding effort at work, today. It's a project that we've been working on quite a long time indeed, with two steps forward on a given subject followed a surely by one step seemingly backward. But there's nothing wrong with doing things the long, hard, stupid way when you're trying to create something of lasting value. In fact, it seems to be required. All the right internal stakeholders are certainly invested in the new product name, new company logo, etc.

I sure learned a lot from all of this.

rand()m quote

Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time or alien in language or diverse in interest.

—T.S. Eliot