Growth Strategy — 5 min
You can measure taste
Creative quality and performance are not opposites. They are the same argument, read on two different clocks.
The false choice between beautiful and effective survives because the two are measured on different clocks.
Performance answers this quarter: cost per qualified lead, contribution margin, payback. Taste answers the decade: unaided recall, pricing power, whether anyone repeats your language without being paid to. A company that only optimises one will pay for the other eventually, usually in media spend.
The useful move is to put both on the same page. We report a short-cycle number and a long-cycle number side by side, every week. It ends most of the argument within a quarter.
Bring us aproblem wortharguing about.
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