Cristiano Ronaldo became the first player to score in six World Cups on June 23, 2026, at 41. The record on the pitch is the sports story. The PR story is 26 years of compounding personal brand.
This article examines Angelina Jolie's 25-year reputation reinvention, from "wild child" to UN Special Envoy and director, as a case study in strategic communications and personal brand architecture.
The most capital-efficient B2B demand generation strategy doesn't require a media budget. It requires a founder willing to share what they actually know, in public, consistently. Here's the playbook — including what scale actually looks like.
Jesse Lingard launched JLingz in 2018 before his football career had become the platform required to sustain it. By 2025 the company was in liquidation with £276,883 in losses. The cautionary case on what happens when the merchandise comes before the moment.
The side project is the most underrated leadership accelerant in 2026. Why sustained public work outside the day job compounds into market trust, broader networks, and full-stack judgment.
Klout was the first attempt to score human influence. It failed. The system that replaced it sits inside ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews — and it's called Citation Share.
