@connectwithgrowth: If Girls Were Free to Imagine They Can Be Anything. Most brands respond to criticism by changing the product. Mattel did something much harder. Instead of rushing to redesign Barbie, they asked what people had forgotten about her in the first place. The criticism focused on unrealistic beauty standards, but the company realized the doll was never meant to be the destination. It was always a starting point. A child doesn't simply look at a Barbie. They invent a life around her. She becomes a doctor, an astronaut, a teacher, a detective, or someone who hasn't even been imagined yet. The real product was never molded plastic. It was imagination. By shifting the conversation away from appearance and back to possibility, Mattel reminded people that meaning often comes from how we use something, not just what it looks like. #barbie #marketing #branding

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