So this is how a brand dies, with thunderous applause.

E trabalho eu com as PME os conceitos e a execução da diferenciação, da autenticidade, da estratégia, do ADN, dos nichos, de ...
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E vem uma multinacional, cheia de recursos fazer exactamente o contrário, "Really, Volvo? Performance Cars?":

"Volvo went dumb, electing to go all-in on a performance-oriented line that will offer go-fast variants of its standard models. It’s a fatigued formula nearly every major luxury car brand employs. Yawn.
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Really, Volvo, you’re the company that 50 years ago introduced the seat belt we still use today, side-impact airbags and an exhaustive list of other inspired safety innovations – and now this is the best you’ve got?
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It’s all about competing with those domineering Germans, don’tcha know, the bunch who wrote the rules on building fast cars because, well, theirs is the only society left that believes getting somewhere quickly in your private vehicle is an efficient and righteous endeavor and doesn’t have to equate with social deviancy."

Não culpemos os chineses, o desvario já vem de trás, recordar "Reflexões sobre a evolução das marcas"