To avoid discounting product or potential flooding of the market, luxury brands have been to known to go to extremes. Burberry’s intentional burning of excess inventory this summer caused a big stir. {See the Huffpo writeup} Following a fairly common industry...
Authors: Minter Dial & Caleb Storkey Review by: Perry Timms (published in HR Director) NOMINATED FOR THE BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2018 Disruption is an oft-used term for that fact that we can rent out someone’s spare room online or order a restaurant’s food to take...
A Freakonomics podcast from Nov 2017 discussed how productivity gains (and exponential ideas) were grinding to a halt (“Are we running out of Ideas?”). At the very least, the idea of endless productivity gains was called into question. If Moore’s Law may have held...
How much responsibility do you take for your life and its current outcome? Chances are, you like me, have a self-awareness that is not as finely tuned as it needs to be. I certainly know I struggle with it myself! There are two primary choices in life: to accept...
We are excited to announce that, starting in August, Futureproof will be given away to guests at the Conrad Hotel in New York as part of a bedside reading offer. The initiative received some unexpected press coverage: RECOMMEND – Curl up with a good...
In today’s tumultuous times, it takes more than reading tea leaves to predict your future prospects. I read with not a little interest a couple of recent articles about my former employer, L’Oreal, the #1 beauty company in the world. First, there was the...
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