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What If It Works?

How will you know if something works if you never try?

On September 11, 2023, I thought what if…

As I spoke (very casually) to a handful of r...

A Road Less Traveled

I was reading these stats online this morning:

The college enrollment rate for recent U.S. high school graduates fell to 61.4% in 2023, the lowes...

Retail Is The New College

Retail doesn’t have to be temporary.

Imagine you are a student in high school, entering your junior year, traditionally the most challenging year ...

An Unlikely Pairing

There is a disconnect at the brand and retail level. A loss of passion overtaken by the daily grind.

Entrepreneurs have a vision of how to make ...

Who do you want to be for your neighbors?

“The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.” Mr Rogers.

To continue the convers...

It's Not a Moment, It's a Movement

We are failing our communities.

On July 19th, 2023, I attended my first-ever group run, hosted by a local running store in Asheville, NC, and was...

We Don't Have All The Answers

"The retail floor staff aren’t connected to the company and the products. It might be a training issue but there seems to be a bigger disconnect; it c...

Transactional Analysis

Transactional analysis occurs when social interactions (or "transactions") are analyzed to determine the state of communicators as a basis for underst...

Reawaken Retail

Retail is dead.

It is time to breathe life back into commerce.

Two separate situations. Similar experiences.

I was the camp host at a ...

A Leader’s Dream: The Culture of Accountability

Once you embrace the role of Leader, you find there are fewer and fewer people who are comfortable being responsible. I spoke last week for the Manhat...

The Harsh Truth About Training

This month we’ve been revisiting my book, “Leading Change: How to Achieve Superior Results with Gentle Pressure Relentlessly Applied”. Today, I am foc...

Gentle Pressure

If you want something to improve, you’ll need pressure. In physics, pressure is expressed as “Force per unit area”: P=F/A. Pressure is usually a conti...

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