Here’s Your 20 Percent Pay Raise
There’s been an awful lot of talk in the news and social media lately about pay rates.
Read moreThere’s been an awful lot of talk in the news and social media lately about pay rates.
Read moreEvery organization needs some set of service guidelines to operate cohesively. These rules are normally set by the organizer or owner, based on their own belief systems.
Read moreRemember your first date? Whether it was with someone you knew or arranged blindly, the feeling was the same — a combination of nervousness and excitement that resulted in anxiety.
Read moreThere’s been an awful lot of talk in the news and social media lately about pay rates.
Read moreThe Batman has gone through several transformations, from comic books to the 1940s movie serials to the Dark Night of this century.
Read moreFacebook blew it off the map. You probably have a Blackberry sitting in a drawer next to a jar of pennies, and a box of video cassettes you can’t bear to toss out.
Read moreThis past week I was honored to have my hotel room upgraded to the Chicken Little Suite. You may remember him, the fowl who thought the sky was falling.
Read moreThe old “Help Wanted” section of the newspaper has been inconsequential for many years now. Social media, especially LinkedIn, is the home of many “now hiring” posts.
Read morePearl Elementary School, most of it didn’t affect me. Yet I still carry the lessons from one dramatic event that school year into my business career.
Read moreThere was a time when the country’s biggest-selling magazine was a pocket-sized digest called TV Guide.
Read moreWorking the business calendar in our retail world is like running a marathon or playing double overtime in the Super Bowl.
Read moreThere’s an old story about the difference in the way a sober person and an intoxicated person uses a lamp post: Sober people use them for illumination and intoxicated people use them for support.
Read moreThis month many of us will return in-person to the BrandSource Convention, where we will see many introductions of new products and several updates of past winners.
Read moreWe all hope for the Perfect Day in retail. Spacious shops with reasonable rents, smokin’ hot high profit merchandise and an engaging sales staff ready to sell to a steady flow of wealthy and credit-worthy shoppers.
Read moreYou’d probably need to find someone born between the time when there were 48 U.S. states and the TV dial had 12 channels to know what the phrases “It’s a doozy” and “That’s ritzy” mean.
Read moreIt’s fairly common these days to feel a bit of technology overload. Just when we finally mastered the skill of getting the thermal paper loaded in the fax machine, they put Zoom, Slack, TikTok, and Whoop-Dee-Doo on our laptops.
Read moreThis Sunday, July 4, is the 245th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Fifty-six colonists hopped on the 18th-century version of a Zoom call and told King George III of England, “Ye can shinny up a thy flagpole.”
Read moreIt was about 150 years ago that one of the first “how-to” books, Samuel Smiles’ Self-Help, became a bestseller.
Read moreIt’s a great time to look for a job! And in a weird way, a great time to hire people too.
Read moreIt’s almost half-past 2021 and it’s business as unusual out there.
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