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Managing Brand Me: How to Build Your Personal Brand

The book that turned the four dimensions on the individual. Managing Brand Me took 4D thinking and applied it to a person — the first serious treatment of what the world would later, less carefully, call personal branding.

Authors
Thomas Gad and Annette Rosencreutz
Published
Momentum / Pearson, 2002 [CONFIRM: year — cited as 2002/2003]
Publisher
Momentum / Pearson
Printed cover credit
Thomas Gad and Anette Rosencreutz

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The book that turned the four dimensions on the individual. Managing Brand Me took 4D thinking and applied it to a person — the first serious treatment of what the world would later, less carefully, call personal branding.

Taking it personal

Where 4D Branding mapped the brand of a company, Managing Brand Me asked the same four-dimensional question of a single human being: what do you do, who do you belong with, what do you help people become, and what do you stand for in the wider world. Co-authored by Annette Rosencreutz and Thomas Gad, it was written before "personal brand" became a cliché — and it holds up precisely because it treats the subject as a matter of integrity rather than self-promotion.

Annette's contemporary commentary

[CONFIRM / Annette to supply or approve: 150–200 words on how Managing Brand Me reads in the age of social media and AI — what the book got right early, and what she would now caution against. This is her book; the voice here should be first-person.]

Key concepts

  • the personal Brand Mind Space
  • the four dimensions of a person

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Also published as

Создай свой бренд (Russian edition, 2002)

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