by David Lively | About Retail, Blog, Family Business, Generations
I wonder if any of you remember the famous speech from the ’87 classic Wall Street? Gekko the super slick stockbroker with the $5,000 suits told us: “The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed- for lack of a better word- is good. Greed is right. Greed...
by David Lively | About Retail, Blog, Communication, Family Business
Thursday afternoon I mistakenly made a post to our site that was “not ready for primetime.” I screwed up. It just so happens the screw up is exactly what I needed to help this post really make the point. You see, we make the assumption that since you...
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by David Lively | About Retail, Blog, Communication, Family Business, Generations
I never gave any thought to the worldview of Willie Nelson. In fact, his pot-smoking, Jack-Daniels-drinking, hell-raising stories just doesn’t line up real well with my life plan. So when friend suggested a couple of years ago I read “The Tao of...
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by David Lively | Blog, Communication, Family Business
A point to ponder, from Brian Clark on copyblogger.com: Mass media is a historical aberration. For a short 70-odd years of human history, a relatively small group of people told us what to think and what to buy, and we were expected to passively accept it....
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by David Lively | About Retail, Blog, Communication, Family Business, Generations
Peter Drucker said the purpose of business “is to create a customer.” This is true, but it is only a single layer of the truth. Another layer is described by Ogden Nash in Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man: It is common knowledge to every...
