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How to Prepare for a Global Pandemic (and beyond)

How to Prepare for a Global Pandemic (and beyond)

by TheLivelyMerchant | About Retail, Blog, Communication, Family Business, Marketing, Web Strategy

How to Prepare for a Global Pandemic (and beyond) Business owners spend countless hours preparing for every possible scenario. They hire and train people, select store sites, carefully choose products and set prices, and continually take the temperature of the market....
Servant Leadership

Servant Leadership

by David Lively | Communication, Family Business, Generations, Personality Type

Here in America, organizational success is defined by winning—often without regard to how it affects people. Employees are often described as capital. Human capital. Servant Leadership, a model that has been studied for over two centuries, defines success very...
Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations.

Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations.

by David Lively | Blog, Family Business

Without a doubt it is the hardworking American family business that fuels the engine that drives the economy. Whether you are a family member working in the business, or a non family hired gun, understanding the special dynamics of family business is the key to...
Why Don’t You Try This?

Why Don’t You Try This?

by David Lively | Blog, Communication, Family Business, Generations, Personality Type

Dr. Howard Thurman was born in 1899 in the segregated South. In 1923, Thurman graduated from Morehouse College as valedictorian. He was ordained a Baptist minister in 1925, after completing his study at the Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School. He then pursued...
Do you get personal?

Do you get personal?

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...
Do you get personal?

You can’t reason your way out of this

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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