Archive for November 2019
In Defense of Meetings
The forward-thinking business world is united in the belief that meetings, by and large, are simply bad ideas. Bad meetings are the subject of popular TED talks. An Amazon search for business books on bad meetings returns over 250 results with titles like “Meetings Suck” and “Death By Meeting”. And, perhaps most tellingly, there are…
Read MoreHow to Avoid Misleading Your Audience with Statistics
I recently picked up a copy of Darrell Huff’s 1954 classic How to Lie with Statistics. Although Huff’s background was not in statistics, his experience as a writer exposed him to the use (and misuse) of statistics. This book is a small volume that packs quite a punch, pointing out numerous examples of how readers…
Read MoreBrick and Mortar Retailing Basing Comeback on Generational Marketing
Rumors of the demise of retailing are highly exaggerated. In the article “Brick-and-Mortar Stores Are Making a Comeback,” author Jon McFarland Flint interviews two Harvard Business School faculty: Antonio Moreno, associate professor, and Jill J. Avery, senior lecturer. In this Q&A, they discuss the problems retail stores have encountered in recent years and provide some…
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