by David Lively | About Retail, Blog, Family Business, Generations
Have you ever been told by your boss that you’re not allowed to wait on customers because, “You don’t have enough sense!”? Many careers begin slowly. “Why should I pay you to learn the business?” was the mantra at one man’s...
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...
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...
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...