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by David Lively | About Retail, Blog, Communication, Family Business
Daily life keeps me humble. Killing lions and bears like my namesake has never out of the question. Of course with killing you create a lot of mess. Mess always has to be cleaned up. (Notice the current financial condition of GM and Chrysler.) When we think about the...
by David Lively | About Retail, Blog, Communication, Family Business, Generations
Foul language shouldn’t be needed to make your position clear. No one has ever accused me of of being a prude. In fact, just the opposite is more likely the case. The use of bottom rung slang is no longer my style. Today’s post is an exception because,...
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by David Lively | About Retail, Blog, Communication, Family Business
After reading the September newsletter from furniture guru Jerry Epperson I wondered if death were a better option than retail. Jerry is typically easy on the ears and his market presentations, while interesting, are typically a rewrapped repeat of his previous words...
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by David Lively | Blog, Communication, Family Business, Generations
An entire generation of Americans is growing up with no newspapers and very few catalogs. They might not even know what a phone book looks like. Scary stuff for an old retail fart like me! This group is more concerned about value than privacy. They’ve never...
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by David Lively | Blog, Communication, Generations, Personality Type
“It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.” Thomas Jefferson After listening to President Bush and then a dozen channels of political pundits and Wall...
