by stevenpdennis | May 27, 2020 | Being Remarkable, COVID-19, Harmonized Retail
The Relevancy Imperative is not a Jason Bourne novel turned into a cinematic action thriller—though with this report that Jeff Bezos might ride in on his white horse to save the day, perhaps truth will turn out to be stranger than fiction. Instead, while Wall Street...
by stevenpdennis | May 18, 2020 | Being Remarkable, COVID-19, Innovation
The parade of bankruptcies that is being unleashed–or more accurately, accelerated–by the COVID-19 pandemic will result in vast numbers of store closings, layoffs and other major expense reductions as long-struggling retailers attempt to stave off...
by stevenpdennis | Apr 27, 2020 | Being Remarkable, Leadership
Famed business strategist Mike Tyson once said “everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” Whether the epic health and economic crisis brought on by the coronavirus is a true Black Swan event is debatable, but it’s clear no business...
by stevenpdennis | Apr 17, 2020 | Being Remarkable
We could have an interesting philosophical debate about whether it’s desirable that so many of us have become weapons of mass consumption. We can make a good case for the many perils of an always connected, constantly distracted, FOMO-driven, social-media-obsessed...
by stevenpdennis | Apr 3, 2020 | Being Remarkable, Collapse of the Middle
The following is excerpted from my forthcoming book Remarkable Retail: How to Win & Keep Customers in the Age of Digital Disruption, which will be published by LifeTree Media on April 14th. There is nothing inherently wrong with the concept of continuous...
by stevenpdennis | Mar 23, 2020 | Being Remarkable, Leadership
The notion of “black swan events” originates in the ancient Latin saying “rara avis in terris nigroque simillima cygno” (translated roughly as “a rare bird in the lands and very much like a black swan”) that presumed that black...
