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Name these companies: 1) The computer for the rest of us 2) Networking networks  3) The world's information in one click 4) Personal video broadcasting network These are not tag-lines. The companies who expressed these words successfully positioned the value proposition and differentiation within a simple ‘one-liner’. Founders and executives delivered these one-liners to everyone who would listen and whom they needed to fold into the cause – investors, landlords, lawyers, recruits, customers, and partners.

Information today flows every which way.  The "shape" of the brand in the minds of customers may be more varied now. Some percent of the variation is not good, but some may very well be. Over-constraining the ‘position’ with too much specificity would not reduce variation (provide management control) anyway. Therefore craft a simple, succinct statement that does a better job of absorbing or exploiting complexity (variation) rather than avoiding it.