by David Lively | About Retail, Blog, Family Business, Generations
I wonder if any of you remember the famous speech from the ’87 classic Wall Street? Gekko the super slick stockbroker with the $5,000 suits told us: “The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed- for lack of a better word- is good. Greed is right. Greed...
by David Lively | About Retail, Blog, Communication, Family Business, Generations
I never gave any thought to the worldview of Willie Nelson. In fact, his pot-smoking, Jack-Daniels-drinking, hell-raising stories just doesn’t line up real well with my life plan. So when friend suggested a couple of years ago I read “The Tao of...
by David Lively | About Retail, Blog, Communication, Family Business, Generations
Peter Drucker said the purpose of business “is to create a customer.” This is true, but it is only a single layer of the truth. Another layer is described by Ogden Nash in Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man: It is common knowledge to every...
by David Lively | About Retail, Blog, Family Business, Generations
Purpose statements have long tasted like stale Saltines filled with things like who founded the company, when it was founded, the company’s position as the market leader, its dedication to customer service, who its customers are, and why you should aspire to be...
by David Lively | Blog, Family Business, Generations
I’m working through a series of questions about purpose. The first one is: “Why do we feel an organization should aspire to make the world a better place?” Making the world a better place seems to be more important now than ever before among all...
by David Lively | Blog, Communication, Family Business, Generations
Have you ever thought about the questions leaders need to ask in order to instill purpose within their companies? This has really been top-of-mind for me lately, because so much is riding on the decisions leaders are making today. It seems as if the margin of error...