Nearly 30,000 thousand people gathered at the National Retail Federation’s Retail BIG Show 2013 to hear from thought-leaders on the challenges and opportunities in retail. Here are key tenets from the conversations. Nine Retail Tenets for 2013 by Denise Lee Yohn from Denise Lee Yohn, Inc. […]
brand-as-business bit: Last week, my guest post “Once Upon a Company” ran on upMover, the blog of UpMo, an employee-centric career management company. I wrote about the power of storytelling to engage employees. I realize that some business leaders may want to leverage internal storytelling but may not know how to do so. Here are a […]
brand-as-business bit: Sam Palmisano, CEO of IBM from 2002-2012, stepped down from his post on Sunday. I’ve been an admirer for years. The New York Times ran a great piece about Palmisano’s impact on the venerable company, including increasing its stock market value to $217BB, making it more nimble and innovative, and focusing its thinking […]