From the Desk of The Professor

Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: When Relationships With Your Favorite Brands Falter

Who or what are you loyal to? Family? Friends? Your employer? Your favorite brands? We live in a transactional, zero-sum time. A time when many ...

New Podcast With Eric Poses, Founder, All Things Equal, Creative Games For Active Minds

At a time when technology was exploding and young people were being lured to exciting new careers in Silicon Valley and other tech hubs around ...

There There: A Novel by Tommy Orange

The phrase “There’s no there there” was written by by Gertrud Stein after returning to her childhood home in Oakland only to find that her ...

Retail’s Misguided Attempt to Embrace Technology

There seems to be a broad consensus that for retail to flourish in the future, it will have to embrace technology that offers the customization ...

New Podcast With Ken Sadowsky, Beverage Industry Clairvoyant

Ken Sadowsky is as close as you come to being clairvoyant. As a distributor, board member and investor, Ken has always seen the future of the ...

Weight Watchers Steps On The Scale. Loses Muscle, Not Fat.

Bloomberg reported this week that “Weight Watchers… stock took a beating Wednesday (February 27), dropping as much as 36 percent on a dismal profit forecast after it ...