Trader Joe’s is a privately owned and highly successfully company with close to $8 billion in revenue. However they maybe more secretive then they are successful. The owners have never conducted a single interview. Well Fortune Magazine did some digging to see what makes the retail chain such a success. There are many, many detail [...]

I live outside of St. Louis where Panera Bread is based (called St. Louis Bread Company here) and there are Starbucks around, but not as many as in other parts of the nation. They’ve been offering free Wi-Fi at all their locations for as long as I can recall. Starbucks has announced they are now [...]

Maybe one of the biggest blunders in the history of American business was when former Pepsi executive John Sculley and the Apple board of directors fired Steve Jobs . The ensuing nose-dive almost put Apple out of business. The decision put Apple years and  years behind the likes of Microsoft.  Now back in charge of [...]

We have a strategic plan, it’s called doing things. — Herb Kelleher, Southwest Airlines

I’m only about 75 pages into The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, but it is every bit as good as Moneyball, Liar’s Poker, and almost as good as the The New New Thing. I just really like the way he tells a story.

Movies, music, and games top a new list from Nielsen of the different types of content that consumers are most willing to pay for online. The data, taken from a survey of 27,000 consumers across 52 countries, also indicates that content created online—like blogs, social networks, and podcasts—are the least likely to attract consumer’s dollars. [...]

At the last ad agency I worked at we had the account for Zebra Technologies, one of the largest barcode printer manufacturers in the world. I never worked on the account, but I have to admit I found all the potential uses for barcodes to be pretty interesting. I also felt like the industry didn’t [...]

For months I’ve been asking myself, as I watched the Democrats lose the governorship in Virginia and New Jersey, then a Senate seat in Massachusetts, and finally the “train wreck” of the primary in my home state of Illinois last week, where the heck is Organizing for America (OFA)? Former known as Obama for America, [...]