About this episode

Dave Mastovich discusses the leadership disconnect in marketing and its impact on company effectiveness and growth.

If your company keeps saying “marketing isn’t working,” the problem may not be your ads, content, or lead flow.. In Part 3 of this series, Dave Mastovich breaks down the leadership disconnect: why marketing gets treated like a department instead of an effectiveness system tied directly to revenue, culture, retention, and growth. This episode explains how real marketing starts with inputs + insights, not outputs and why storytelling is the missing lever that shapes culture and compounds trust....

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Host: Dave Mastovich

Topics covered

• marketing effectiveness
• leadership disconnect
• storytelling
• company culture
• revenue growth

Keywords

• marketing
• leadership
• storytelling
• company culture
• revenue
• retention
• growth

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