Overview
For twenty-five years, Alex Meier sat in the room where marketing decisions get made - and watched brilliant campaigns solve the wrong problem, beautifully. The pattern repeats in every industry: a team faces a real business problem, and within the first hour, someone asks, "What's the idea?" The conversation shifts from why to how. Weeks later, an award-worthy campaign launches - and the business stays exactly where it started. THE WRONG QUESTION names this pattern and shows how to break it. Drawing on real cases - a telecom losing customers, a pasta brand outpriced by "smart shopping," a loyalty app no one opens - Alex Meier reveals why organizations keep answering the wrong question brilliantly, and lays out Business-Driven Creativity(TM): a five-step model that starts with the business, not the brief. This is not a book about advertising. It's a book about how organizations - ad agencies, boardrooms, product teams, founders - make decisions under pressure, and the specific pattern that leads smart people to solve the wrong problem with the right execution. Inside, you'll find:
- Why the "inspiration trap" quietly costs companies millions in campaigns that never move the needle
- The five-step Business-Driven Creativity(TM) model, from understanding the system to letting creativity translate the decision
- A field guide of questions that redirect a meeting before it goes wrong
- What artificial intelligence changes - and what it makes more valuable than ever: judgment
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798193413424
- ISBN-10: 9798193413424
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: August 2026
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.3 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.34 pounds
- Page Count: 118
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