The Once and Future Department Store
One of greatest retail innovations was the 19th century creation of the department store. Until their arrival, shopping was a never-ending trek to different stores for different things. These brick-and-mortar behemoths ruled the retail universe until the advent of malls, discounters like Wal-Mart and online giants like Amazon. Gary Hoover, founder of Hoover’s Data had a […]
The New Career Risk: The Proximity Problem
One of the most significant second order effects of the Covid pandemic was the acceleration of working from home (WFH), or anywhere. Many have resisted returning to the office or decline new employment that doesn’t include significant opportunity to work in sweatpants or pajamas. While WFH has many benefits, it appears that there’s a cost […]
Dr. Sagan’s Baloney Detection Kit
A recent article in Inc Magazine begins “As philosopher Harry Frankfurt wrote in 2005 in his classic little book On Bullshit, “One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit.” The great popularizer of science, and perhaps more important, scientific thinking , Dr. Carl Sagan, would have agreed “In his book The Demon-Haunted World, he […]
A Great First Day
It’s said that “What’s well begun is half done” and that “Life is a First Impression Business”. With the first days of the NewYear behind us, it’s a good time to ask yourself what the first days of a new hire’s introduction to your company is like. What type of “first impression” do you and your […]
The Year Ahead-Vistage Webinar
If you missed the live “CEO Update: Key Trends for 2024 “webinar this past Friday with Vistage Speake Marc Emmer and Joe Galvin, Vistage Chief Research Officer, the recording of same is now available. This particular webinar is available to non-members as well.
Best Blogs
I resource material for your “edification, enlightenment, and enjoyment” from many sources. I will continue to provide specific recommendations as above for the content I think is worthwhile. But if you don’t find anything to your liking above, check out this list of the best (in my opinion) blogs, websites etc. for the C-Level Executive from proven […]
For Our Friends Outside the Vistage Family
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Econ Recon
Forget the Wave, start paddling: ITR Economics’ Taylor St. Germain offers a concise look ahead at 2024 using three key economic indicators that directly, or indirectly affect all of us. Check out his executive summary of the recent history, and recent future, of US Industrial Production (mining, manufacturing, and utilities), inflation (and interest rates), and the labor […]
Dr. G’s 2024 Predictions
It wouldn’t be the New Year without someone making predictions and there is no one whose predictions I more eagerly await than Professor Scott Galloway’s. In the most recent edition of his “No Mercy/No Malice” blog, he not only looks at what’s ahead for economy, housing, AI, China and the 2024 Presidential Elections…he gives reasons for […]
Managing from the Outside In
Peter Drucker once remarked that “the purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer”. Every executive needs to remember that all his or her customers are outside the company, which in turn ought to encourage us to think about ‘managing from the outside in.” To that end, it’s imperative to identify and understand the economic, social, […]
