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McNellis: For the Class of 2017
By John McNellis “Even if all your desires and wishes were fulfilled, you still wouldn’t be happy…” Alan Watts [dropcap]R[/dropcap]ather than focus on...
McNellis: The Death of Retail?
By John McNellis “The outlook for physical retailers is grim, the sector roiled by store closings, layoffs and bankruptcies.” San Francisco Chronicle 5...
Primer on Workplace Amenities
How to Leverage Your Competitive Edge And Meet the Needs of a Changing Workforce By Robin Weckesser [dropcap]U[/dropcap]sing the workplace as a tool...
McNellis: Oh, Lucky Man
By John McNellis [dropcap]A[/dropcap]s the red-staters in Congress gather yet again this week to disembowel the Affordable Care Act, it may be worth...
Short the (Department Store) Stock
By John Cumbelich [dropcap]T[/dropcap]he Department Store business model is dead. Macy’s and JC Penney are closing stores by the hundreds. Sears is on...
Foreign Investors Pile into US Commercial Real-Estate Bubble
By Wolf Richter With impeccable timing, after a blistering 7-year price boom. 2016 might later be called the peak year in terms of...
McNellis: Marching Into Madness?
By John McNellis “Cocaine’s for horses, it ain’t for men They say it’ll kill you, but they won’t say when” Cocaine Blues [dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen...
McNellis: There’s no Place like Home
By John McNellis [dropcap]I[/dropcap]f idle hands are the Devil’s work shop—they are—idle money is surely his pied-a-terre. When left with little to do,...
McNellis: Groceries Falling Through the Net?
By John McNellis [dropcap]I[/dropcap]n hindsight, yesterday’s common wisdom is often so wrong we wonder how we ever thought it true. In fact, some...
Change Management and Workplace Design
By Winfield S. Roney What are employees’ greatest fears about change management? The biggest fear here is the word “change.” Let’s face it,...
McNellis: So This is Christmas
By John McNellis [dropcap]W[/dropcap]e all need to believe. Whether hard-wired into our genome or learned from our first breath, this universal hunger manifests...
McNellis: Is Retail’s Middle Earth Flat?
By John McNellis [dropcap]W[/dropcap]e own and develop suburban neighborhood shopping centers within about a two-hour drive of San Francisco. We both build new...
