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Cult Status

Building a Business that People Adore
By Tim Duggan
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Cult Status by Tim Duggan explores the future of cult brands beyond the giants like Nike and Apple. Drawing on a decade of research with innovative entrepreneurs such as Blake Mycoskie and Zoe Foster Blake, Duggan reveals how to build passionate communities that foster sustainable business success. The book offers seven essential steps, practical exercises, and insights on balancing profit with purpose, leadership traits, and creating meaningful impact both inside and outside organisations.
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Ideal for aspiring entrepreneurs, business leaders, and anyone interested in building brands with strong, purpose-driven communities and long-term success.

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Consumers are changing, and the businesses that form around them are principled, purposeful and creative. The next generation of entrepreneurs think differently, and Cult Status will show you how you can too.

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Enough has been written about huge cult brands founded last century – Nike, Apple, Red Bull. What will the cult companies of tomorrow look like? Who is amassing the kind of passionate community that makes a brand a massive, long-term, sustainable success?

Tim Duggan, co-founder of one of Australia’s most innovative and awarded new media companies, has studied hundreds of successful entrepreneurs and change makers over the last decade to uncover what they all have in common.

Learn from the founders of modern brands like Blake Mycoskie (TOMS), Zoe Foster Blake (Go-To), Tim Brown (Allbirds), Daniel Flynn (Thankyou), Lucy Moss (SIX), Oscar McMahon (Young Henrys) and more. In this book you’ll discover:
  • The 7 Steps to building a business with cult status
  • The one thing you should do before starting something new
  • Why every business of the future needs to balance profit and purpose together
  • How to have just as much impact working inside a company as you can from outside
  • The leadership trait every new leader needs
  • How to create a passionate community around you and your work
  • 14 practical exercise you can do today to set up for success tomorrow.
Armed with this book, anyone from anywhere can help create the next business with serious cult status. 

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Praised by Naomi Simson as a "road map to the future," and Osher Gunsberg for its insights into business-community relationships, the book is described by Lorraine Murphy as "the manual for a generation of millennial entrepreneurs." Alex Greenwich highlights its challenge to reassess impact and rally people for passionate outcomes.

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ISBN: 9781925700534

Publisher: Pantera Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 July 2020

Country: Australia

Imprint: Pantera Press

Illustration: Text only

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 340g

Pages: 272

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Business & Entrepreneurship Business Leadership & Management Company Culture & Human Resources Non-Fiction Start-ups & Entrepreneurship Tim Duggan

About the Author

Tim Duggan is a new media entrepreneur who has co-founded several digital media ventures, most notably Junkee Media – Australia’s leading Millennials digital publisher. In 2018, industry organisation Mumbrella named Junkee Media Large Publishing Company of The Year. Junkee’s content agency, Junkee Studio, helps leading global brands like American Express and Qantas tell and share their stories. Tim began his career as a music journalist for Rolling Stone. He sits on the boards of Hello Sunday Morning, a tech start-up working to change people’s relationship with alcohol, and the Griffin Theatre Company, Australia's new writing theatre. Tim lives with his partner, Ben, and dog, Winnie, in Sydney.

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