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by Amy Lively | About Retail, Blog, Communication, Family Business, Retail Idioms
THE NEW YORK TIMES, AUGUST 31, 1895 – Mrs. Clara McArthur of 162 East One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Street attempted to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge at 5:30 o’clock yesterday morning, but was prevented by the bridge policemen… “I made up my mind long ago...
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by David Lively | About Retail, Blog, Family Business
Do you remember the scene in “The Wizard of Oz” where the Wizard tells the Scarecrow, “My boy, back where I come from, men teach at great universities with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven’t got – a...
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....
