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by David Lively | About Retail, Blog, Communication, Family Business, Personality Type
“Jack of all trades, master of none” turns up more than 2 ½ million hits with a Google search. The phrase is the title of a book, a CD, a blog, a TV sitcom, and I’m certain a number of other things. Thinking about this old standby as it relates to...
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by David Lively | About Retail, Blog, Communication, Family Business, Personality Type
What do you make of this? A farmer planted seed. As he scattered the seed, some of it fell on the road, and birds ate it. Some fell in the gravel; it sprouted quickly but didn’t put down roots, so when the sun came up it withered just as quickly. Some fell in...
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by David Lively | About Retail, Blog
From the 1998 Matt Damon and Ed Norton movie “Rounders,” about the underground poker world of Boston, we can take to heart one of the best business quotes of all time: “A lion survives by being a lion and a mouse by being a mouse.” It seems...
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by David Lively | Blog, Generations
What is culture? How does it play out in family business? A culture can be defined by four foundational stones. They are artifacts, perspectives, values, and assumptions (Schein 1985, Dyer 1986) and on these, researchers agree. I’m wondering how you may view...
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by David Lively | Blog, Personality Type
In a previous post I wrote about the archetypes of personality. These archetypes seem to have been imprinted within each of us. To me the key to understanding is to realize at any giving time we may be acting in the father, or hero, or faithful family dog role. Our...
