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Simon Mainwaring

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Simon Mainwaring is a branding consultant, author, and speaker known for his expertise in social media and purpose-driven business. His book *We First* explores how brands and consumers can work together to build a better world. Mainwaring advocates for businesses that lead with values and build genuine community engagement.

“There is a fundamental shift that social media necessitates in business today - the need to transition from 'Me First' to 'We First' thinking.”

— Simon Mainwaring

Business

All Quotes by Simon Mainwaring

“As more people use social media to tell the story of the future, the wants and needs of more people will be reflected.”

— Simon Mainwaring

Future

“In the coming years, if not sooner, social media will become a powerful tool that consumers will aggressively use to influence business attitudes and force companies into greater social responsibility - and, I suggest, move us towards a more sustainable practice of capitalism.”

— Simon Mainwaring

Business

“Your computer needn't be the first thing your see in the morning and the last thing you see at night.”

— Simon Mainwaring

Morning

“More and more companies are reaching out to their suppliers and contractors to work jointly on issues of sustainability, environmental responsibility, ethics, and compliance.”

— Simon Mainwaring

Environmental

“More brands are waking up to their social responsibility and doing good work through cause marketing campaigns. Yet too many still go about it the wrong way. I mean 'wrong' in two senses. Firstly, they are marketing ineffectively, and secondly, as a consequence their positive social impact is not maximized.”

— Simon Mainwaring

Positive

“Social technology gives leaders a vital new platform with which to connect their companies to the myriad stakeholders who have an interest in their well being.”

— Simon Mainwaring

Technology

“If capitalism is to remain a healthy, vibrant economic system, corporations must participate in taking care of the society and the environment in which they live.”

— Simon Mainwaring

Society

“Let's hope brands recognize that the true power of this technology is not its reach but its ability to communicate substance that adds meaning to our lives. Otherwise, brands will be investing in technology that consumers simply won't buy.”

— Simon Mainwaring

Hope

“Corporations, consumers, and citizens must begin acting in concert to create a powerful third pillar of social transformation if we hope to meet the social challenges we currently face with equal force. This begins with corporations that choose to alter how they practice capitalism in two ways to serve the greater good.”

— Simon Mainwaring

Hope

“We now see numerous examples of brands working together to address issues such as environmental degradations, climate control, pollution, poverty and disease.”

— Simon Mainwaring

Environmental

“In the social business marketplace, brands that hope to build loyal and growing communities do so most effectively when they demonstrate their core values and allow a community to build and engage around it.”

— Simon Mainwaring

Business

“The leverage and influence social media gives citizens are rapidly spreading into the business world.”

— Simon Mainwaring

Business

“The new dynamics between brands and consumers, driven by social media, are proving to be a powerful impetus for change.”

— Simon Mainwaring

Change

“The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability.”

— Simon Mainwaring

Success

“There's an adage that is an apt description of the new dynamic at work between brands and consumers connected through social media: People support what they help to build. But now that many brands are launching community-driven cause marketing campaigns, the challenge becomes what to do next?”

— Simon Mainwaring

Work

“We need to develop and disseminate an entirely new paradigm and practice of collaboration that supersedes the traditional silos that have divided governments, philanthropies and private enterprises for decades and replace it with networks of partnerships working together to create a globally prosperous society.”

— Simon Mainwaring

Society

“Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers.”

— Simon Mainwaring

Experience

“Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else. We don't need to look far and wide to find examples of gluttonous behavior, as they are numerous throughout the history of capitalism.”

— Simon Mainwaring

History

“Companies, to date, have often used the excuse that they are only beholden to their shareholders, but we need shareholders to think of themselves as stakeholders in the well being of society as well.”

— Simon Mainwaring

Society

“Refuse to accept the belief that your professional relevance, career success or financial security turns on the next update on the latest technology. Sometimes it's good to put the paddle down and just let the canoe glide.”

— Simon Mainwaring

Success