by David Lively | Blog, Family Business, Generations
I’m working through a series of questions about purpose. The first one is: “Why do we feel an organization should aspire to make the world a better place?” Making the world a better place seems to be more important now than ever before among all...
by David Lively | Blog, Communication, Family Business, Generations
Have you ever thought about the questions leaders need to ask in order to instill purpose within their companies? This has really been top-of-mind for me lately, because so much is riding on the decisions leaders are making today. It seems as if the margin of error...
by David Lively | About Retail, Blog, Communication, Family Business, Generations
On January 6, 1941 President Roosevelt forever changed to direction of the nation. He single handedly added freedoms beyond the American Constitution. It was never implied Americans should expect freedom from “want and fear.” While these are wonderful...
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...
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...