Tag: Industry Trends

  • Our Mission

    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”               – Mark Twain  Our Inspiration, Our Values, Our Mission…  This is the last of my three-part return…

  • Our Inspiration

    “All things are difficult before they are easy.” – John Norley  In contemplating what to write about this week for the Desk of Brad, I was thinking back a few years and I recalled a three-part series I’d written back in 2012 called Our inspiration, our values, our mission.  It’s always good to revisit such things from…

  • Virgin Atlantic Takeaways

    “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” –  William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well  I had the great pleasure of spending Tuesday afternoon with Richard Branson (Virgin Group) and Kevin Plank (UnderArmor) at a symposium for entrepreneurs in Washington, DC. They spoke at length regarding their strategies, their successes, and, yes, their failures. I had a…

  • The Experience Economy: Part 3

    This concept of the experience economy I have been talking about for the past two weeks is a fundamental shift in the American system of values. People no longer care what goods you have; they care how good you have it. This is not just my speculation. It’s been documented scientifically. There is a large…

  • The Experience Economy: Part 3

    The Experience Economy: Part 3

    This concept of the experience economy I have been talking about for the past two weeks is a fundamental shift in the American system of values. People no longer care what goods you have; they care how good you have it. This is not just my speculation. It’s been documented scientifically. There is a large…