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Chunking for Initiative Taking, Genuine Retailer Identity Commitment, Six-Month Grievance Venting System
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No one is ever held as an example of goodness or badness in Shakespeare; He presents . . . a philosophy of wondering at the world without looking for easy answers, looking for some other easy way out. He shows us that t…
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"No one is ever held as an example of goodness or badness in Shakespeare; He presents . . . a philosophy of wondering at the world without looking for easy answers, looking for some other easy way out. He shows us that there is none, but that you can laugh just the same. —Sir Ian McKellen, interviewed in the LA Times, December 3, 1983"
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Chunking for Initiative TakingGenuine Retailer Identity CommitmentSix-Month Grievance Venting SystemWhite Papers Before Major MovesReasonable Beats Optimal AlwaysPay Premium to Win PremiumEach SKU Profit Center DisciplineNo Secretaries No Secrets PolicyDiscontinuity as Core StrategyGrowth Skepticism as DisciplineOvereducated Underserved TargetingEntrepreneurial Vendor Treasure HuntingBrooks Brothers Strategy