Case Study 2: Charlotte Beers at Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide

What is Beers trying to accomplish as CEO of Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide? Did Beers and her team “get the vision right”? Explain your answer. What is your assessment of the process Beers and her team went through to create the vision? Explain your answer. Did Beers and her team effectively “communicate for buy-in”? Explain your answer.

 

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be intelligent, stylish, and “first class.” Most of all, however, David Ogilvy believed that advertising
must sell. “We sell—or else” became his credo for the agency. In 1950, Ogilvy’s campaign for
Hathaway featured a distinguished man with a black eye patch, an idea that increased sales by 160%
and ran for 25 years. Other famous campaigns included Maxwell House’s “Good to the Last Drop”
launched in 1958 and American Express’s “Don’t Leave Home Without It,” which debuted in 1962.

Gentlemen with Brains

David Ogilvy imbued his agency’s culture with the same “first class” focus that he demanded of
creative work. Employees were “gentlemen with brains,” treating clients, consumers, and one
another with respect. “The consumer is not a moron,” admonished Ogilvy. In a distinctly British
way, collegiality and politeness were highly valued: “We abhor ruthlessness. We like people with
gentle manners and see no conflict between adherence to high professional standards in our work
and human kindness in our dealings with others.”2

At Ogilvy’s agency, gentility did not mean blandness. Ogilvy took pride in his agency’s “streak of
unorthodoxy.” He smoked a pipe, refused to fly, and peppered his speeches with literary references
and acerbic wit. He once advised a young account executive, “Develop your eccentricities early, and
no one will think you’re going senile later in life.” In a constant stream of letters, he made his dislikes
clear: “I despise toadies who suck up to their bosses. . . . I am revolted by pseudo-academic jargon
like attitudinal, paradigms, and sub-optimal.” He also exhorted his staff to achieve brilliance through
“obsessive curiosity, guts under pressure, inspiring enthusiasm, and resilience in adversity.” No one
at Ogilvy & Mather ever forgot the full-page announcement he placed in the New York Times:
“Wanted: Trumpeter Swans who combine personal genius with inspiring leadership. If you are one
of these rare birds, write to me in inviolable secrecy.”

In 1965, Ogilvy & Mather merged with its partner agencies in Britain to form Ogilvy & Mather
International.3 “Our aim,” wrote David Ogilvy, “is to be One Agency Indivisible; the same
advertising disciplines, the same principles of management, the same striving for excellence.” Each
office was carpeted in the same regal Ogilvy red. Individual offices, however, were run
independently by local presidents who exercised a great deal of autonomy.

David Ogilvy retired in 1975. Succeeding the legendary founder proved daunting. “The next four
chairmen,” commented one longtime executive, “did not have his presence. David is quirky; they
were straightforward, middle-of-the-road, New York.” Ogilvy’s successors focused on extending the
network offices internationally and building direct response, marketing research, and sales
promotion capabilities. The advertising industry boomed, and Ogilvy & Mather led the pack.
Nowhere was the agency’s reputation greater than at its New York office, heralded by the press as
“the class act of Madison Avenue.”

Globalization of Advertising

As business globalized, so did agencies. Responding to clients’ demands for global
communications and a range of integrated services, agencies expanded rapidly, many merging to
achieve economies of scale as “mega-agencies” with millions in revenues worldwide. The
globalization of media and pressures for cost efficiencies encouraged companies to consolidate

2David Ogilvy, Confessions of an Advertising Man (New York: Atheneum, 1963).

3Dictionary of Company Histories, 1986.

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product lines and to sell them in more markets worldwide. They, in turn, directed agencies to
transport their brands around the world. Advertising agencies—often a loose federation of hundreds
of independent firms—were asked to launch simultaneous brand campaigns in North America,
Europe, and the emerging markets of Asia, Latin America, and Africa.

Organizational Structure

Ogilvy’s 270 offices comprised four regions. The North American offices were the most
autonomous, with office presidents reporting directly to the Worldwide CEO. Outside North
America, presidents of local offices—sometimes majority stakeholders (see Exhibit 1)—reported to
country presidents, who in turn reported to regional chairmen. Europe was coordinated centrally,
but—with significant European multinational clients and a tradition of high creativity—the region
maintained its autonomy from New York. To establish a presence in Latin America, Ogilvy obtained
minority ownership in locally owned agencies and formed partnerships with local firms. The last
region to be fully formed was Asia/Pacific, with the addition of Australia, India, and Southeast Asia
in 1991 (see Exhibit 2 for organization chart).

Between and across regions, “worldwide management supervisors” coordinated the requirements
of multinational clients such as American Express and Unilever. WMSs served as the point of contact
among multiple parties: client headquarters, clients’ local subsidiaries, and the appropriate Ogilvy
local offices. They were also responsible for forming and managing the core multi-disciplinary
account team. More important, they facilitated the exchange of information throughout the network,
attempting to ensure strategic unity and avoid operating at cross-purposes.

Over time, Ogilvy & Mather came to pride itself as “the most local of the internationals, the most
international of the locals.” Local delivery channels and the need for consumer acceptance of
multinational products required specialized local knowledge and relationships. Local and global
clients also served as magnets for each other: without local accounts, country offices were unable to
build sufficient critical mass to service multinational clients well; without multinational accounts to
draw top talent, the agency was less attractive to local clients.

With a “light center and strong regions,” most creative and operating decisions were made locally.
The role of Worldwide Headquarters in New York, staffed by 100 employees, was limited largely to
ensuring consistency in financial reporting and corporate communications. Key capital allocation
and executive staffing decisions were made by the O&M Worldwide board of directors, which
included regional chairmen and presidents of the most powerful countries and offices such as France,
Germany, the United Kingdom, New York, and Los Angeles.

The Ogilvy offices represented four core disciplines: sales promotion, public relations, advertising,
and direct marketing. Sales promotion developed point-of-purchase materials such as in-store
displays and flyers. Public relations offices worked to promote clients’ corporate reputation and
product visibility. Advertising focused on mass marketing, establishing the core of a client’s brand
image through the development and production of television commercials, print campaigns, and
billboards. Direct Marketing created and delivered targeted advertising—from mail order catalogues
to coupons and television infomercials—designed to solicit a direct response from consumers. While
the latter three resided within the regional structure, O&M Direct was an independent subsidiary.

“Beleaguered” Ogilvy & Mather

As clients demanded lower costs and greater service, Ogilvy & Mather—like many large agencies
at the time—was slow to make adjustments. As one executive remembered:

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Everything was going well. All we had to do was wake up in the morning and we were
plus 15%. So why did we need to change? Our vision was “just keep doing the same thing,
better.” We failed either to recognize or acknowledge what were the first real indications that
life around here was about to change fundamentally.

In May 1989, WPP Group Plc, a leading marketing services company, acquired Ogilvy & Mather
for $864 million.4 WPP, led by Harvard Business School-trained Martin Sorrell, had already
purchased the J. Walter Thompson agency for $550 million two years earlier.5 The takeover was
hostile, with agency executives—including CEO Kenneth Roman—opposed. “It was a shock,”
explained one long-time executive. “We were a proud company with a constant stock market
growth, the masters of our destiny. Suddenly, we were raided.” Within months of the takeover,
CEO Roman resigned. “Ken had absolutely nothing in common with WPP. There was a lack of trust,
an air of conflict, adversaries, and invasion,” remembered another. A number of top creative and
account executives followed Roman, leaving Ogilvy & Mather for other agencies.

Graham Phillips, a 24-year Ogilvy veteran, was appointed Roman’s successor. One executive who
worked with Phillips described him as “a brilliant account guy and a very good manager who
identified our need to become a total communications company. But few would describe him as an
inspirational leader.”

Soon thereafter, the agency lost major advertising assignments from Unilever and Shell.
Seagram’s Coolers and Nutrasweet next withdrew their multinational accounts. Account losses
proved particularly damaging to the New York office, the agency’s center and standard-bearer. “If
New York thrives, the world thrives. If New York fails, the world fails” went a familiar company
adage. New York’s client defections were explained by one executive as a failure in leadership: “The
office was run by czars with big accounts. People got used to a highly political way of working and
work deteriorated.” Campbell Soup withdrew $25 million in business, Roy Rogers $15 million, and
American Express—the account for which Ogilvy had won “Print Campaign of the Decade”—pulled
out $60 million. “Losing American Express had symbolism far beyond what the actual business losses
were,” recalled one Ogilvy executive. “People who were loyal Ogilvy employees, believers for years,
disengaged. They threw up their hands and said, ‘This place is falling apart.’“

Despite declines in revenue, the agency found itself unable to adapt to clients’ changing demands.
Budgets were not reduced at local offices, even as large clients pushed Ogilvy to streamline and
centralize their accounts. “We were a high-cost operation in a low-cost world. There was a lack of
financial discipline, a lack of focus on cost, and a lack of structured decision making on business
issues,” noted one executive. Another faulted the firm’s tradition of local autonomy and failure to
institute systems for managing collaboration: “We were spending a lot of money at the creative
center without cutting back locally—building costs at both ends.”

Recalling the atmosphere at the time, another executive concluded, “A shaken confidence
permeated the whole company. We talked about change and what we needed to do ad nauseam, but
nothing was happening. We tried to work within the old framework when the old ways of working
were irrelevant.”

Phillips stepped down as CEO, telling the press: “I have taken Ogilvy through a very difficult
period in the industry. I had to let go people whom I had worked with for 27 years, and that wears

4Christie Dugas, “The Death of Ogilvy and an Era,” Newsday, May 17, 1989.

5Ibid.

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you down.” Charlotte Beers was appointed CEO and chairman of Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, the
first outsider ever to lead the company.

Charlotte Beers

The daughter of a cowboy, Beers grew up in Texas, where she began her career as a research
analyst for the Mars Company. She moved to Chicago as an account executive with J. Walter
Thompson. Once there, she cultivated success with clients Sears, Kraft, and Gillette, combining a
Southern Texan charm with sharp business acumen. Beers rose quickly to senior vice president for
Client Services.

At Thompson, Beers was known for her passionate interest—unusual in account executives—in
the philosophy of marketing. Commented Beers, “I try never to discuss with clients only the stuff of
business. I focus on advertising as well—on the ideas.” Once described on a performance evaluation
as “completely fearless,” Beers earned a reputation for her ability to win over clients. Colleagues
retold the story of how Beers impressed a roomful of Sears executives by taking apart, then
reassembling, a Sears power drill without skipping a beat in her pitch for a new advertising
campaign.

As COO of mid-size Chicago agency Tatham-Laird & Kudner Beers helped turn the firm around
by winning new accounts with Proctor & Gamble, Ralston-Purina and Stouffer Foods. Beers was
elected CEO in 1982 and chairman of the board in 1986. She became the first woman ever named
chairman of the American Association of Advertising Agencies. One year later, she led TLK through
a merger with the international agency Eurocome-RSCG. Tatham’s billings had tripled during
Beers’s tenure, to $325 million.

Beers Takes Over

Beers’s appointment, recalled O&M veterans, created initial apprehension. Commented one
executive, “She was from a smaller agency in Chicago and had not managed multiple offices. O&M
is a worldwide company, and she had never worked outside the United States. And, she was not
from Ogilvy.” Added another, “This is an organization that rejects outsiders.”

Her approach quickly made an impression with Ogilvy insiders. “It was clear from day one that
Charlotte would be a different kind of leader. Full of life. Eyes open and clearly proud of the brand
she was now to lead. Here was somebody who could look around and see the risks, but wasn’t afraid
to turn the corner even though it was dark out,” said one executive. “We had leaders before, who
said all the right things, were terribly nice, did a good job, but they didn’t inspire. Charlotte has an
ability to inspire—Charlotte has presence.” Commented another executive, “She is delightfully
informal, but you always know that she means business.” Within two months of her appointment,
Beers dismissed a top-level executive who had failed to instigate necessary changes.

Activate the Assets

“When I took over,” recalled Beers, “all the press reports talked about ‘beleaguered’ Ogilvy. My
job was to remove, ‘beleaguered’ from our name.” In her first six weeks, Beers sent a “Hello” video
to all 7,000 of Ogilvy’s employees. It began:

Everybody wants to know my nine-point plan for success and I can’t tell you that I know
yet what it is. I’m building my own expectations and dreams for the agency—but I need a core
of people who have lived in this company and who have similar dreams to help me. That’s

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going to happen fast, because we are rudderless without it. David [Ogilvy] gave us a great
deal to build on, but I don’t think it’s there for us to go backwards. It’s there to go forward.

Beers concluded that people had lost sight of Ogilvy’s still impressive assets—its vast network of
offices worldwide, its creative talent, and its distinguished list of multinational clients. “We must,”
she told senior executives, “activate the assets we already have.” In her second month at Ogilvy,
Beers observed a major client presentation by the heads of five O&M offices:

It was a fabulous piece of thinking. We had committed enormous resources. But in the end,
they didn’t tell the clients why it would work. When the client said, “We’ll get back to you,”
they didn’t demand an immediate response, so I intervened. “You saw a remarkable
presentation, and I think you need to comment.” Ogilvy had gotten so far from its base, that
talented people lacked the confidence to speak up.

For Beers, her early interactions with a key client symbolized the state of the company. “He kept
retelling the tale of New York’s downfall: how we blew a major account in Europe and how our
groups fought among one another. The fourth time I heard this story,” remembered Beers, “I
interrupted. ‘That’s never going to happen again, so let’s not talk about it anymore. Let’s talk about
what we can accomplish together.’“

Beers spent much of her first months at Ogilvy talking to investors and clients. For Wall Street,
she focused on the quality of Ogilvy’s advertising. “I refused to do a typical analyst report,” she said.
“When the Wall Street analysts asked me why I showed them our ads, I told them it was to give them
reason to believe the numbers would happen again and again.” Clients voiced other concerns. “I
met with 50 clients in six months,” recalled Beers, “and found there was a lot of affection for Ogilvy.
Yet, they were also very candid. Clients stunned me by rating us below other agencies in our insight
into the consumer.” Beers shared these perceptions with senior managers: “Clients view our people
as uninvolved, distant, and reserved. We have organized ourselves into fiefdoms, and that has taken
its toll. Each department—Creative, Account, Media, and Research—are often working as separate
entities. It’s been a long time since we’ve had some famous advertising.”

To restore confidence both internally and externally, Beers maintained that the agency needed a
clear direction. “I think it’s fair to say Ogilvy had no clear sense of what it stood for. I wanted to give
people something that would release their passion, that would knit them together. I wanted the
extraneous discarded. I wanted a rallying point on what really matters.”

For Beers, what mattered was brands. “She is intensely client- and brand-focused,” explained one
executive. “You can’t go into her office with financial minutia. You get about two seconds of
attention.” Beers believed that clients wanted an agency that understood the complexity of managing
the emotional as well as the logical relationship between a consumer and a product. “I became
confident that I knew what clients wanted and what Ogilvy’s strengths were. It was my job to be the
bridge.” Beers, however, was as yet unsure what form that bridge would take or how it would get
built. One of her early challenges was to decide whom to ask for help in charting this new course:

I knew I needed their involvement, and that I would be asking people to do much more
than they had been, without the benefits of titles and status. I avoided calling on people on the
basis of their titles. I watched the way they conducted business. I looked to see what they
found valuable. I wanted people who felt the way I did about brands. I was looking for
kindred spirits.

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The “Thirsty for Change” Group

Over the next few months, Beers solicited ideas for change from her senior managers, asking them
to give candid evaluations of disciplines and regions, as well as of one another. In a style that
managers would describe as “quintessential Charlotte,” Beers chose to meet with executives one-on-
one and assigned them tasks without regard to their disciplinary backgrounds. She commented, “I
was slow to pull an executive committee together. I didn’t know who could do it. It was a clumsy
period, and I was account executive on everything— everything came to me.” At first, some found
the lack of structure unnerving. Noted one executive, “People weren’t quite sure what their roles
were. It caused discomfort. We began to wonder, ‘Where do I fit? Who is whose boss?’“ Another
added, “She was purposely vague in hopes that people would stretch themselves to new
configurations.” Several executives, though cautious, found Beers’s talk of change inspiring and
responded with their ideas.

By May, Beers had identified a group whom she described as “thirsty for change.” Some were top
executives heading regions or key offices; others were creative and account directors who caught her
eye as potential allies. Her selection criterion was “people who got it”—those who agreed on the
importance of change. All had been vocal about their desire to move Ogilvy forward. She sent a
memo inviting them to a meeting in Vienna, Austria, that month:

HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL
From: Charlotte Beers

To: LUIS BASSAT, President, Bassat, Ogilvy & Mather—Spain
BILL HAMILTON, Creative Director—O&M New York
SHELLY LAZARUS, President—O&M New York
KELLY O’DEA, Worldwide Client Service Director, Ford and AT&T—London
ROBYN PUTTER, President and Creative Director—O&M South Africa
HARRY REID, CEO—O&M Europe, London
REIMER THEDENS, Vice Chairman—O&M Europe, Frankfurt
MIKE WALSH, President—O&M, United Kingdom, London
ROD WRIGHT, Chairman—O&M Asia/Pacific, Hong Kong

Will you please join me . . . in re-inventing our beloved agency? I choose you because

you seem to be truth-tellers, impatient with the state we’re in and capable of leading this
revised, refreshed agency. We want to end up with a vision for the agency we can state . . .
and excite throughout the company. Bring some basics to Vienna, like where we are today
and where we’d like to be in terms of our clients and competition. But beyond the basics,
bring your dreams for this great brand.

Brand Stewardship

The Vienna meeting, recalled Beers, “put a diversity of talents in a climate of disruption.” Having
never met before for such a purpose, members were both tentative with each other and elated to
share their perspectives. Two common values provided an initial glue: “We agreed to take no more
baby steps. And it seemed clear that brands were what we were going to be about.”

Beers asked Rod Wright, who had led the Asia/Pacific region through a vision formulation
process, to organize and facilitate the meeting. Wright proposed a conceptual framework, based on

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the McKinsey “7-S” model,6 to guide discussion of the firm’s strengths and weaknesses. He also
hoped to generate debate. “We don’t have passionate arguments in this company. We avoid conflict,
and debates go off line. When you use a framework, it’s easier to depersonalize the discussion.”

Reactions to the discussion ranged from confusion to disinterest. “It was theoretical mumbo-
jumbo,” commented one participant, “I tend to be far more pragmatic and tactical.” Added another,
“I don’t have much patience for the theoretical bent. I wanted to get on with it.” Wright admitted,
“They rolled their eyes and said, ‘You mean we’ve got to do all that?’“ Beers agreed: “The B-school
approach had to be translated.” As the discussion unfolded, the group discovered that their
personalities, priorities, and views on specific action implications diverged widely.

One debate concerned priorities for change. Shelly Lazarus diagnosed a firm-wide morale
problem. She argued for restoring confidence with a pragmatic focus on bottom-line client results
and counseled against spending much energy on structural changes. Mike Walsh agreed but insisted
that the group take time to articulate clearly its vision and values. But Kelly O’Dea had become
frustrated with Ogilvy’s geographical fragmentation and argued that anything short of major
structural changes would be insufficient.

Participants were also divided on whether the emerging brand focus was an end or a starting
point. The “creatives” in the group7—Luis Bassat, Bill Hamilton, and Robyn Putter—flanked by
Beers, Lazarus and Walsh were interested primarily in finding an effective vehicle for communicating
O&M’s distinctive competency. An eloquent statement, they felt, would sell clients and inspire
employees. The others—O’Dea, Wright, Harry Reid, and Reimer Thedens—wanted a vision that
provided guidelines for an internal transformation. Summarized Wright, “One school of thought
was looking for a line which encapsulates what we do: our creative credo. The other was looking for
a strategy, a business mission to guide how we run the company.”

Yet another discussion concerned the route to competitive advantage. Bassat, Putter and
Hamilton, commented one participant, felt that Ogilvy had lost sight of the creative product in its
rush to worry about finances—”we’d become too commercial.” A recommitment to better, more
imaginative advertising, they believed, would differentiate the firm from its competitors. Reid and
Thedens, architects of a massive re-engineering effort in Europe, insisted on financial discipline and
tighter operations throughout the company as the only means of survival in the lean operating
business environment. Wright and Thedens added the O&M Direct perspective. Convinced that
media advertising by itself was becoming a commodity product, each pressed for a commitment to
brand building through a broader, more integrated range of communication services.

At the close of the meeting, remembered one attender, “There was a great deal of cynicism. ‘Was
this just another chat session?’ we asked ourselves. But, we also had a sense that Charlotte felt right.
She fit.”

In August, the group reassembled at the English resort Chewton Glen. Members presented Beers
with their respective lists of priorities requiring immediate attention. Taken together, there were 22
“to do” items ranging from “examine the process by which we develop and present creative ideas” to
“improve our delivery of services across geographical divisions.” Beers recalled, “No one can focus

6Wright’s model included 10 issue categories: shared values, structures, stakeholders, staff, skills, strategy, suggestions,
solutions, service systems, and a shared vision.

7Within advertising and direct marketing, “creatives” develop the art and copy for each media outlet of a brand campaign.

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on 22 things! I was so depressed, I stayed up all night and wrote a new list.” She delivered her
thoughts the next day:

I think we have hit bottom and are poised for recovery. Poised but not assured. Our job is
to give direction for change. So here is where I start. For 1993, we have three—and only
three—strategies. They are:

1. Client Security. Let’s focus our energy, resources and passion on our present
clients. It takes three years to replace the revenue from a lost client. Under
strategy one, there’s a very important corollary: We must focus particularly on
multinational clients. This is where we have our greatest opportunity for growth
and where our attitudes, structure, and lack of focus have been obstacles.

2. Better Work, More Often. Without it, you can forget the rest. Our work is not
good enough. Maybe it will never be, but that’s O.K.—better to be so relentless
about our work that we are never satisfied. You tell me there’s nothing wrong
with our credo, “We Sell, or Else,” but you also say we need some fresh thinking
on how to get there. We must have creative strategies that make the brand the
central focus.

3. Financial Discipline. This has been a subject of high concentration but not very
productively so. We simply have not managed our own resources very well, and
that must change.

These strategies were linked to the emerging vision by a declaration: “The purpose of our
business is to build our clients’ brands.” One participant recalled, “The idea of brand stewardship
was still embryonic. Charlotte clearly understood it in her own mind but was just learning how to
communicate it. She used us as guinea pigs to refine her thinking.” But some expressed concern:
“There was no disagreement that the 1993 strategy was correct. It was fine for the short-term but we
needed a long-term strategy.”

Through the fall, group members worked to communicate the strategy—dubbed the “Chewton
Glen Declaration”—to the next level of managers. Beers directed her energy toward clients, working
vigorously to win new and lost accounts. She spoke about the emotional power of brands, warning
them of the abuse inflicted by agencies and brand managers who failed to understand the consumers’
relationship with their products. Ogilvy & Mather, Beers told clients, was uniquely positioned to
steward their brands’ growth and development. Clients were intrigued. By October, O&M boasted
two major successes: Jaguar Motor cars’ entire U.S. account and the return of American Express’s $60
million worldwide account.8 The press hailed, “Ogilvy & Mather is back on track.”

Worldwide Client Service

The Chewton Glen mandate to focus on multinationals heightened the need for better global
coordination. Although Ogilvy had pioneered multinational account service in the 1970s, the firm
remained “segregated into geographic and discipline fiefdoms” that hampered the development and
delivery of brand campaigns worldwide. Noted O’Dea, “What most clients began to seek was the
best combination of global efficiencies and local sensitivity, but we were not set up to facilitate that.
We had the local strength, but international people were commandos with passports and begging
bowls, totally dependant on the goodwill of local agencies and their own personal charisma.”

8″Operation Winback,” Advertising Age, February 1993.

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Beers asked O’Dea to head a new organization, Worldwide Client Service, that would “tap the
best brains from anywhere in the world for each account.” O’Dea envisioned dozens of virtual
organizations, each focused on a multinational client, with multiple “centers” located wherever their
respective clients maintained international headquarters. Under WCS, members of multinational
account teams became “dual citizens,” reporting both to their local office presidents and WCS
supervisors. One WCS director noted, “International people coordinating multinational accounts
used to be regarded by the local offices as staff. We thought we were line; the clients treated us like
line; but internally, we had no real authority. What WCS did was give us teeth by giving us line
responsibility for our accounts—tenure, profits, growth, and evaluation of local offices.”

WCS brand teams were structured to mirror their clients’ organizations. Some WCS directors
served largely as consultants, while others ran highly centralized operations, with a core team
responsible for the entire creative and client development process. “We had to reinvent ourselves in
the client’s footprint,” remarked the WCS account director for Kimberly-Clark. His counterpart at
Unilever agreed but noted that current trends favored centralization. “Speed, cost-efficiency, and
centralization are our clients’ priorities. What matters is not just having good ideas, but getting those
ideas to as many markets as possible, as fast as possible.”

O’Dea began to travel the world presenting the possibilities of transnational teams without
borders. “Good sell-ins had to be done. Office heads had to understand that there were no choices—
global accounts had to be managed horizontally. We’d be dead if we didn’t do it,” said Reid.

Tools for Brand Stewardship

“The first six months were high excitement, high energy, and a steep learning curve,” said Beers.
“That was followed by 12 months of disappointment and frustration. It didn’t look as if we were
getting anywhere.” In December, Beers asked Robyn Putter and Luis Bassat, two of the firm’s top
creative talents, for help in developing the emerging notion of “Brand Stewardship.” They answered:
“If we are to be successful, we must ‘audit’ our brands. We must ask the kinds of questions that will
systematically uncover the emotional subtleties and nuances by which brands live.” Beers took their
insight directly to existing and prospective clients. One manager remembered:

Clients immediately bought into Brand Stewardship. That created pressure to go public
with it before we had every “i” dotted and “t” crossed. We didn’t have a codified process, but
Charlotte would talk to clients and we’d have to do it. Clients came to O&M offices saying, “I
want a brand audit.” And, our offices responded with, ‘What’s a brand audit?’ One client
asked us for permission to use the term. We had to move quickly, or risk losing ownership of
the idea.

Beers responded by asking a group of executives to elaborate the notion of a brand audit. Led by
Walsh, they produced a series of questions designed to unveil the emotional as well as the logical
significance of a product in the users’ lives: “What memories or associations does the brand bring to
mind? What specific feelings and emotions do you experience in connection with using this brand?
What does this brand do for you in your life that other brands cannot?” The insights gathered from
these questions—which became the brand audit—would, in Beers’s words, “guide each brand team
to the rock-bottom truth of the brand.” Focusing on two of Ogilvy’s global brands— Jaguar and
Dove—Beers’s working group struggled to articulate in a few words and images each brand’s unique
“genetic fingerprint.” The result was O&M’s first BrandPrints™:

1. A Jaguar is a copy of absolutely nothing—just like its owners.

2. Dove stands for attainable miracles.

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Crafting a Vision

As the “technology” of brand stewardship developed, the senior team continued to wrestle with
the formulation of a vision statement. Some argued, “We have the vision—it’s Brand Stewardship.”
Others maintained that Brand Stewardship was but a tool to be used in attaining a yet undefined,
future state. Further, as O’Dea explained, “Nearly everyone had had some contact with Brand
Stewardship and WCS but they viewed them as separate and isolated actions without a strategic
context.”

The solution to the impasse, for some, was to include a larger group in the vision formulation.
“We needed to decide collectively what we were going to be. If you have 30 people deciding and 30
people who have bought into the vision, then they have no reason not to go out and do it,” reasoned
Wright. Walsh agreed: “You get the 30 most influential people in the company to open their veins
together—which hasn’t happened in a very long time.” Others, including Beers, worried about
losing control of the end result. Advocates for a larger group prevailed, and the entire O&M
Worldwide board of directors along with eight other local presidents attended the next meeting at the
Doral Arrowwood, a conference center in Westchester, New York.

The purpose of the meeting, explained one of the organizers, was to get final agreement on the
vision and where brand stewardship fit in. Feedback from clients on brand stewardship and WCS
was used to guide the initial discussion. Participants’ recollections of the three-day event ranged
from “ghastly” to “painful” and “dreadful.” Noted Lazarus, “It seemed an endless stream of
theoretical models. Everyone was frustrated and grumpy.”

The turning point, Beers recalled, took place at the end of a grueling first day, when one person
voiced what many were thinking: “He said, ‘There’s nothing new here. I don’t see how Brand
Stewardship can be unique to Ogilvy.’ This was very helpful. One of the negatives at Ogilvy is all
the real debates unfold outside the meeting room.” The next morning, Beers addressed the group:
“Certainly, the individual pieces of this thinking are not new. But to practice it would be
remarkable. I have heard that in any change effort, one-third are supporters, one-third are resisters,
and one-third are apathetic. I’m in the first group. Where are you?”

With Beers’s challenge precipitating consensus, attenders split into groups to tackle four
categories of action implications. One group, which included Beers, was charged with crafting the
specific wording of the vision. A second began to develop a statement of shared values that would
integrate traditional Ogilvy principles with the emerging values of the new philosophy. “That was
hard to agree on,” recalled Wright. “At issue was how much of the past do we want to take forward.”
The third group worked on a strategy for communicating the vision to all levels and offices
throughout the company. Plans for a Brand Stewardship handbook, regional conferences, and a
training program were launched. A fourth group was asked to begin thinking about how to realign
titles, structures, systems, and incentives to support the new vision.

After heated brainstorming and drawing freely from the other three groups to test and refine their
thinking, Walsh remembered that, finally, “there it was: ‘To be the agency most valued by those
who most value brands.’“ Summing up the meeting, one attender said, “There had been an amazing
amount of distraction, irrelevance, and digression. I didn’t think we could pull it together, but we
did.” (See Exhibit 3 for the final version of the Vision and Values statement.)

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Moving Forward

Through the fall, Beers and her senior team worked relentlessly to spread the message of Brand
Stewardship throughout the agency. It was a slow, sometimes arduous, process. By the end of the
year, they had identified several issues that they felt required immediate attention.

Spreading the Gospel

Compared to clients’ enthusiasm, reactions to Brand Stewardship within the agency were initially
tepid. Across disciplines, employees below the most senior level lacked experience with, and
knowledge of how to use, the principles of Brand Stewardship. O’Dea remarked, “Brand
Stewardship has not seeped into everyday practice. Only a minority of the O&M population truly
understands and embraces it. Others are aware of Brand Stewardship, but not deeply proficient.
Many are still not true believers.”

Account executives who misunderstood the concept were at a loss when their clients demanded it.
Planners expressed confusion about how to use Brand Stewardship to develop a creative strategy.9
Recalled one executive, “People didn’t understand such basic things as the difference between a
BrandPrint™ and an advertising strategy.”

Greater familiarity with the process did not always mitigate opposition. Admitted Beers, “We
didn’t always have much internal support. It did not sound like anything new.” Another problem
was that a brand audit might suggest a change of advertising strategy. “Doing an audit on existing
business can be seen as an indictment of what we have been doing,” noted one executive. Lazarus
concluded:

It will only be internalized throughout the organization with experience. I did a Brand
Stewardship presentation recently with some of our account people. The client was
mesmerized. They wanted the chairman of the company to see the presentation. Now, that
had an effect on the people who were with me. I can bet you that when they make the next
presentation, Brand Stewardship will be their focal point.

Perhaps the greatest resistance came from the creative side. “We’ve got to get greater buy-in from
the creative people,” noted Walsh. Their initial reactions ranged from viewing the BrandPrint™ as
an infringement on their artistic license—”I didn’t believe in recipe approaches. They can lead to
formulaic solutions,” said one early convert—to the tolerant skepticism reported by another: “The
creatives tell me, ‘If it helps you get new business, that’s great, but why are you in my office talking
about this? I have a deadline and don’t see what this has to do with creating advertising.’ But you
can’t develop a good BrandPrint™ without cross-functional involvement.”

Others questioned the relevance of Brand Stewardship for O&M Direct. While clear to Beers that
Brand Stewardship clarified the rewards to clients from integrating advertising and direct marketing,
some were slow to see this potential. Dispelling the popular notion that direct encourages short-term
sales while advertising builds brands over the long-term, Thedens argued, “You can’t send a message
by mail that contradicts what you show on television. Both disciplines sell and both build the
brand.”

9Account executives managed the agency’s contact with clients, bringing in new accounts and coordinating information flow
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One executive concluded that the biggest problem was insufficient communication: “Anyone
who heard it firsthand from Charlotte bought in. From the moment she opens her mouth to talk
about brands, you know she has a depth of understanding that few people have. The problem is that,
until recently, she has been the only missionary. Although the senior team had started “taking the
show on the road,” Walsh felt they were too few for the magnitude of the task: “The same six or
seven people keep getting reshuffled. The result is that follow-through is not good.” O’Dea,
however, pointed out that the new missionaries had different tribes to convert. He emphasized the
importance of translating the vision into a new role for each employee:

We need to move beyond a vision that is useful to the top five percent of account and
creative people, to one that has meaning for everyone at Ogilvy. The Information Systems staff
should see themselves as brand stewards, because without information technology, we can’t
respond with appropriate speed. I want the Media people to say, “I will not buy airtime on
these T.V. shows because they don’t fit the BrandPrint™.” Creatives at O&M Direct
developing coupon designs must be as true to the BrandPrint as creatives in advertising.
Everyone must see themselves as co-stewards of the vision.

Local/Global Tensions

Success in winning several, large multinational accounts created further challenges for the
embryonic WCS. Their goal of helping clients to develop a consistent brand image globally created
tension in the firm’s traditional balance of power. WCS pressed local agencies to give priority to
brands with high global development potential over local accounts. For local agencies, however,
local accounts often provided the most stable revenue stream and greatest profit. Further, in their
zeal to exercise their newfound “line” responsibility, WCS supervisors were viewed at times as
overstepping the bounds of their authority.

While tension had always existed between the centers and local markets, the increasingly
centralized brand campaigns exacerbated conflicts. “Local agencies were used to always giving the
client what they wanted,” explained one WCS supervisor, “I had to start telling them to stop over-
servicing the client.” Some balked. Local expertise had always been one of Ogilvy’s greatest
competitive strengths. As one senior executive explained, “Certain local offices have not responded
well to some of the advertising created centrally. One downside of global work is that it can end up
being middle-of-the-road. When this happens, it’s bad for an office’s creative image locally.”

But with costs escalating both centrally and locally, many felt that “the local barons” had to be
reigned in. “How do we help our clients globalize,” asked Walsh, “when our local management will
conspire to keep them geographically oriented?”

For smaller agencies, issues of creative pride and autonomy were especially salient. Under the
new system, the central WCS team developed the BrandPrint™ and advertising campaign with input
from local offices. Local offices then tailored execution to regional markets. But while large offices
usually served as the center for at least one global account, smaller offices, explained one WCS
director, “are more often on the receiving end now. They begin to feel like post boxes. How do you
attract good people to smaller offices if they never get to run big accounts?”

Beers felt that maintaining flexibility was key. “Some of our competitors—McCann Erickson is a
good example—are excellent at running highly centralized campaigns. For us to view WCS that way
would be a mistake. WCS should build upon, not diminish, our local strength.” Creative and
execution roles, she explained further, should shift according to the locus of the best ideas or relevant
resources:

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I want to continue to cultivate the tension between local and center. The easiest thing
would be to have far more dominance centrally. It is more efficient, and the clients like it,
because they invariably wish they had more control at the center. The reality is that nothing
substitutes for full-blown, local agencies where the people are talented enough to articulate the
heart of the brand, to interpret it in a sophisticated way, and—if necessary—to change it. If
you have messengers or outlets, you will never execute well. The best ideas have unique, local
modifications. One brand campaign we tested, for example, was an absolute win around the
world, except in Asia, where the humor did not translate well. Our creative director in Asia
worked with the idea, and it became the print campaign we use globally.

Also on her mind was the brewing controversy about how to split fees and allocate costs between
WCS and local offices. Agency compensation on large accounts consisted frequently of fixed fees that
were negotiated up front. With new clients, it could be difficult to estimate the range of Ogilvy
services needed and the extent of local adaptation that would be required. Agencies in more distant
markets were asked to contribute—sometimes without compensation—when the need for additional
local work was discovered. Local presidents complained that, although WCS accounts pulled their
people away from local accounts with clear-cut billable time, their portion of multinational fees was
small. WCS, on the other hand, maintained that they were being forced to absorb more than their fair
share of local costs.

Beers recounted one specific incident that unfolded in December. “Kelly told me that one of our
offices had refused to do any more work for a client, because they did not have any fees. I said to
him, ‘I think you ought to talk to them about our new way of working and how much promise there
is in it. Give them more information. If they still can’t see their way, have them come to me.’ You
ask for collaboration,” she concluded, “but occasionally you act autocratically.”

As conflicts continued to erupt, senior management was divided on the solution. “We have
highly individual personalities running our offices. With 272 worldwide,” one account director
observed, “it’s been like herding cats.” Debate swirled around the degree of management structure
required. Lazarus advocated common sense resolutions between the global account director and
local agency presidents: “In our business, the quality of the work that gets done all comes down to
the people who are doing it, not to bureaucratic structures. If you create the right environment and
you have the right people, you don’t need a whole structure.” Others, O’Dea and his WCS corps
included, insisted that organizational changes were necessary to make Brand Stewardship a reality
agencywide. Walsh agreed: “What we don’t have is a structure, working practices, remuneration,
praise of people—all based on Brand Stewardship.” Referring to the trademark Ogilvy color, Beers
offered her perspective:

We have to make Ogilvy “redder.” The finances should follow our goal of killing
geography as a barrier to serving the brand. . . . Let’s get the emotional content high and the
structure will follow. We have people in the company who would prefer it the other way, but I
want to get it done in my lifetime. So much of what happens at Ogilvy is cerebral, thoughtful
and slow. We can’t afford to move at a “grey” pace.

By the end of the year, yet another issue had come to the fore. With large multinational accounts,
some WCS heads controlled billings that easily surpassed those of many countries in the network.
The agency, however, had always accorded the greatest prestige and biggest bonuses to presidents of
local offices, countries, and regional chairmen. Brand Stewardship now required top-notch brand
stewards and organizations centered around products and processes rather than Ogilvy office
locations. “I ask people to collaborate, but I don’t pay them for it. This company has never asked its
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brightest to WCS posts, knowing she would be asking them to leave the safety of turf to head brand-
focused, virtual organizations.

The “thirsty for change” veterans believed another hurdle would be learning to work better as a
team. Said Lazarus, “I don’t think we make a lot of group decisions. We talk about it, but decisions
tend to get made by Charlotte and by the specific individuals who are affected.” But implementation
revived many of the debates of the first Vienna meeting. “I think we are all still very guarded,”
explained Walsh. “As each meeting goes by, it’s a bit like a lump of ice slowly melting—our edges
getting smoother all the time.” Lazarus hoped that team members would grow “comfortable enough
to disagree openly with one another.” Battling a culture she had once described as “grotesquely
polite” was still on Beer’s list of priorities as she considered the group she had assembled to help
carry the change forward.

Charlotte Beers assessed the year’s progress: “Clients love Brand Stewardship. Competitors are
trying to copy it. And internally, we lack consensus.” She wondered what course of action would
provide the best stewardship of the Ogilvy brand.

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Exhibit 1 Percent of Regional Offices Owned by O&M Worldwide

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North America 40 80 20 0 0
Europe 97 63 24 8 5
Asia/Pacific 66 57 36 7 0
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