05-11-2010 08:20 AM
from FastCompany.com
For a brand, nirvana is when your good name is so widely endorsed that it enters the language.
"Pass the Kleenex."
"Google it."
But that's the top of a long and slippery slope--look at Toyota and Tiger Woods. A healthy brand drives up your stock, and vice versa. These are the things we thought we knew.
It's 2010--are they still true?