(H/B) CHIEF CULTURE OFFICER

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Levi-Strauss, the jeans and apparel maker, missed out on the hip-hop trend. They didnt realize that those kids in baggy jeans represented a whole newand lucrativemarket opportunity, one they could have seen coming if they had but been paying attention to the shape of American culture. Levi Strauss isnt alone. Too many corporations outsource their understanding of culture to trend hunters, cool watchers, marketing experts, consulting firms, and, sometimes, teenage interns. The cost to Levi-Strauss was a billion dollars. The cost to the rest of corporate America is immeasurable. The lesson? The American corporation needs a new professional. It needs a Chief Culture Officer.Grant McCracken, an anthropologist who now trains some of the worlds biggest companies and consulting firms, argues that the CCO would keep a finger on the pulse of contemporary cultural trendsfrom sneakers to slow food to preppieswhile developing a systematic understanding of the deep waves of culture in America and the world. The CCOs professionalism would allow the corporation to see coming changes, even when they only exist as the weakest of signals. Delightfully authoritative, trenchantly on point, bursting with insight and character, Chief Culture Officer is sure to expand your horizonsand your business. (from the publisher)