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Jim Fielding, Ex-Head of Disney Stores, on the Struggles of Making It as a Queer Executive

Harvard Business Review

Fielding has thought a lot about these questions and has decided to share his own story and perspective in a just-published book, All Pride No Ego: A Queer Executive’s Journey to Living and Leading Authentically. He currently serves as president of Archer Gray’s Co-Lab division, focusing on building businesses via venture investments.

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Eight Companies that Switched What They Did

Destination Innovation

It is now renowned for its luxury goods and opulent stores. Initially the business sold books door-to-door. McConnell gave samples of perfume as an incentive for book sales but found that demand for the perfume exceeded that for the books. After the war Tiffany focused on jewellery.

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The Secrets to Running a Successful Retail Store

The Human Factor

Think that anyone could run a store? While it’s certainly not the most difficult-looking job in the world, there’s a surprising amount of customer psychology and management involved that separates a good store from an excellent store. One of the greatest marketing tools available for store owners is the internet.

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Cool Lateral Ideas

Destination Innovation

He created the world’s first supermarket, the King Kullen store in Queens, New York in 1930. These examples and many others are contained in the book, Lateral Thinking for Every Day, published by Kogan Page. Problem: Customers were waiting in line to be served by a busy assistant in a grocery shop. Lateral Idea. Lateral Idea.

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Building A Collaborative Innovation Playbook

Speaker: Greg Satell, Innovation Advisor, Speaker and Author

For his upcoming book, Mapping Innovation, Greg Satell has researched how people and organizations successfully innovate. Greg has an action-packed session in store for us, you don’t want to miss this session. Where and how to seek out innovation opportunities inside and outside the organization.

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#1,581 – The Greatest Books of 2019

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

This is a list of books that I read in 2019, not necessarily a list of books that were published in 2019. The 50 Greatest Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy – Books that cover a wide range of topics can be hit or miss. The Big Bento Box of Unuseless Inventions – It’s probably not fair to say that I read this book.

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Bypass the Naysayers

Destination Innovation

It was originally designed to store and play music. On Monday morning hordes of fans went into music stores to buy the record only to be told that it was not available. Reviewers were generally very critical of the standard of writing in the book and of the way it described explicitly erotic scenes featuring bondage and sadism.