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Category: Future

Empty Highway

Marketing Places: Bullshit Jobs?

September 29, 2021 Robert Govers

This essay has been published as Chapter 19 in Marketing Countries, Places, and Place-associated Brands: Identity and Image (2021) under…

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Posted in: Brand, Future, Leadership Filed under: (bull)shit jobs, academia, marketing places
City of Ghent

The Inimitable Smart City: High-tech identity

April 27, 2021 Robert Govers

This article was first published in Dutch on Network Citymarkting Nederland, April 19, 2021. The future is bright for city marketing.…

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Posted in: Brand, Future, Identity, Meetings, Purpose, Smart City, Technology Filed under: Autoura, Chemosignals, Corona, Ghent, IoT, Pokemon Go, Rome, Smart City
Real Elephant in the Room

The Elephant of the Energy in the Room

November 18, 2020 Robert Govers

Let me get straight to it. I am terribly depressed and sometimes feel like I’m on the brink of a…

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Posted in: Future, Meetings, Tourism, Travel Filed under: Chemosignals, Energy, Meetings
Crowd

??? is the Time to Rethink our Communities

May 26, 2020 Robert Govers

This article was first published on City Nation Place , May 7, 2020. The novel Coronavirus has clearly shown us…

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Posted in: Brand, Future, Globalisation, Identity, Leadership, Purpose, Uncategorized Filed under: Bhutan, Estonia, Finland, Identity, imaginativecommunities, Oslo, Purposedrivenleadership, Values
Imaginative Leadership

Imaginative Leadership for a New Decade

March 11, 2020 Robert Govers

This article was first published by the Economist Intelligence Unit on their Perspectives platform on February 4. In this era of global…

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Posted in: Brand, Future, Imagination, Leadership, Purpose, Reputation Filed under: Bhutan, Estonia, Geopolitics, Purposedrivenleadership, Reputationalrisk, Reputationalsecurity, Reputationmanagement, Risk
The Sustainable Kinetic Brand Management (SKBM) Model

Govers on Brand: The SKBM Model

March 2, 2020 Robert Govers

Do you agree with my conceptualisations or am I hallucinating? I believe that whether you manage a product brand, corporate…

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Posted in: Brand, Future, Reputation Filed under: Brandmanagement, Brands, SKBM
Great Wall of China

The Future of Tourism: Imaginative Destinations

September 17, 2019 Robert Govers

This article was first published on July 10, 2019 in the World Economic Forum Agenda under a different title: Our tourism…

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Posted in: Future, Imagination, Policy, Reputation, Tourism Filed under: Communities, Destinations, Future, Tourism
Calatramachismo Liege

Calatramachismo, CRAP, Green-washing, Fashionable Poverty and Future Boredom

May 7, 2018 Robert Govers

About a year ago I was handed this mysterious cardboard box . I had not seen it before, yet it…

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Posted in: Future Filed under: Future, Heritage, Imaginative Communities
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