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London, England
Joined April 2009
The “kernel”, or the core, of good strategy has 3 pieces 👇 From Good Strategy/Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt
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How to actually build your brand in 2026 open.substack.com/pub/pollya…
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POLLYANNA WARD retweeted
“Damon Hill looked at me with disdain” Red Bull Racing, @F1mech on The Line Full interview out now on YouTube. Link in bio
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Wrote a new Substack that gives you access to how my brain works 🧠 open.substack.com/pub/pollya…
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What shall I write about next? Some topics swimming in my head: - Your KPIs are boring, do this instead. - Unusual places to look for cultural insights. - How you behave is more important than what you look like. Discuss…
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Are campaign phases irrelevant? I think they might be… but I have new frameworks that could be the solution! open.substack.com/pub/pollya…
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Brands don’t build community, people do. Latest Substack now out open.substack.com/pub/pollya…
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POLLYANNA WARD retweeted
Be fair, this is funny
Clearly it’s an amicable split - they’re both getting 50 percent of the acrimony. #TrumpVsElon
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Tried @lovable for the first time last night and vibe coded an interactive graphic wall art generator that reacts to current time & weather
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Played around with laws of growth and brand world building
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Calling it, Anna Camp will win an Emmy for #YouNetflix
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We’ve planned, plotted & pulled it all together - now ✨NeuroNights✨ is go! Comedy + neuroscience = two mind-blowing nights 🧠 Apr 10: Neuro Myth Busters (feat. Disabilarity) 🧠 Apr 24: Battle of the Brains Laughs, facts & all for a good cause 🎟️ lng.org/byob-leaf
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Wrote things about piracy being seen as a Good Thing for brands and how to lean into it to drive growth pollyannaward.substack.com/p…
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Sunday Scaries really took the most basic format and repeated the same line over and over and over again and now has brands from Nike to White Lotus to Severance all over the feed. Be brave enough to post the same thing again and again until you are seen and wanted.
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