Had Groucho Marx been a Millennial, his famous adage “I don’t want to belong to any club that will accept people like me as a member\” would read a little more like “I don’t want to be admitted to any […]
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It’s a state. It’s a city. It’s a country. It’s a movie producer, a real estate broker, a publisher, a wholesaler, a fashion house, a distributor of anything and everything. It’s really anything you want it to be. However, unlike
It\’s a Bird, It\’s a Plane…NO, It\’s Amazon Read More »
America’s Care Providers My mother died two weeks ago at age 90. She had been diagnosed with Dementia 10 years ago. Her slide into darkness was heartbreaking. Even at the end, part of her remembered who she was; an alpha
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Consumers love celebrities and are more than willing to fork over billions of dollars for things they endorse. But do you want them to land on your product when they fall from grace? That multi-million dollar celebrity endorsement deal for
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I know, I know – the real shootout took place in Tombstone, Arizona in 1881 and defined the dynamics playing out in the “Wild West.” But I will take liberties with the analogy for this article. In the real gunfight,
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In early May, I attended the Luxury Roundtable: State of Luxury 2013 in New York, organized and hosted by The Luxury Daily and its editor-in-chief Mickey Alam Khan. It featured speakers from the Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, Mercedes-Benz, Donna
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Don’t look now, but Wall Street is actually loving home furnishings retailers…finally. Many of the stock prices of pure-play public retailing corporations that specialize in selling home furnishings —Bed Bath & Beyond, Home Depot, Pier One, Williams Sonoma, Ethan Allen—are
How do we use it to drive performance improvement? In my last few articles, I have focused on new metrics and processes available to retailers that help them create and energize a far more participatory and collaborative organization. CEOs and
Data, Data Everywhere… Read More »
What\’s Wrong With That Statement? Am I wrong to be disgusted over the blatant irresponsibility of some of the largest retailers and apparel brands in the world, as well as the governments and factory owners in the countries sought for
\”I\’m Dying to Make Your T-shirt For You\” Read More »
“Bubble Capitalism” Crushes the American Dream Forget the cresting, breaking and other visible economic waves we discern on the surface of our economy — all accompanied by “cyclical” blathering of the dire necessity to create jobs and growth, and reduce
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