Dan Kim believes in the power of a brand.
As founder, president and CEO of Red Mango Inc., he says you have to have a strong brand, and you can’t deviate it from that if you want to be successful in business.
“If you constantly change who you want to become, the strength of your brand goes away,” he says. “If you try to do too much and address too many things, you stretch yourself too thin and really can’t accomplish anything.”
Kim says you have to know who you are as a brand, and then you have to keep your ideas and people focused on that. This helps him keep his 800 people across 55 frozen yogurt stores moving the company forward.
“It’s discipline, it’s focus, and it’s appreciating the brand at all times and understanding that the success of the company is not going to be determined by short-term wins but really how well we position ourselves as a brand,” he says.