Category Archives: Strategy and the Big Picture

Objective, long-term, strategic, macro view

The Dilbert Dipstick

“Dear Stan, Our organization, like many others, is experiencing very difficult economic challenges.  So far we’ve been able to not let anyone go, but money is tight and we’re all trying to do more with a lower budget.  We don’t … Continue reading

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Swimming with the sharks

And I mean that in the best possible way.

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Auspicious consumption

Why is it that the word “consumption” has been inextricably bound to the adjective “conspicuous”, and the phrase has come to mean a condemnation of our consumer-based economy?

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Thoughts from January 2008, pre-recession…

January 7, 2008  (With 2011 notes) As the 2007 shopping days of Christmas fade behind us, a look forward seems in order.

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