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by David Lively | About Retail, Blog, Communication, Web Strategy
Technology has changed the retail world like nothing that has happened in the last 100 years. The same thing has happened in publishing, where 60,000 jobs have been lost in just over eight years. David Carr of the New York Times recently explained in an article...
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by David Lively | About Retail, Blog
Just because something can be done, should we do it? “Science can tell us how to do something, but it cannot tell us whether we should do it. To explore that question, we must step outside the narrow range of science’s purely technical questions, and look at the full...
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by David Lively | About Retail, Blog, Communication
Strategy is a word few people truly understand. The military uses intelligence to determine how to approach a problem – how to think about it. In his new book Living On The Top Line, Joe Capillo uses the best research and intelligence available for the furniture...
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by David Lively | About Retail, Blog, Communication, Family Business, Web Strategy
Over 17 years ago, Bruce Springsteen belted out, “You might need something to hold on to, when all the answers, they don’t amount to much, somebody that you could just to talk to, and a little of that human touch baby, in a world without pity.” Today more than...
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by David Lively | About Retail, Blog, Communication, Family Business, Generations, Web Strategy
Ah, the good old days! Fact is, the furniture industry was successful in the 1950’s and the 1970’s and 1990’s. But “nothing fails like success,” says Gerald Nachman, cultural historian and founder of www.thecolumnist.com. Financial success turned our industry into a...
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by David Lively | About Retail, Blog, Communication, Family Business
The last time paid newspaper circulation in the United States was at its current level, a new house was selling for $4,600, a gallon of gas was 15 cents and the average annual wage was $2,400. Oppenheimer’s Little Boy and Fat Man were about to bring World War II to...
