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  1. Data & Insights

The Sense of an Ending.

For the last post of 2024 as many of us look back, a combination of visuals and words on the conflation of time and memory… “What you end up remembering isn’t always the same as what you have witnessed.” “History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies […]
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  1. Retail Ecosystem

How Poshmark’s In-Person Events Drive Livestreaming Results

Brands and retailers are investing more in cultivating community — not just online, but through immersive IRL experiences. While experts agree taking this more experience-driven approach helps cultivate community, it also can have a financial impact, especially for businesses like Poshmark, which rely heavily on its communities of sellers to drive business growth. In fact, […]
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On Work.

Image by Joe Latimer using Midjourney. Work is central to the human experience. Thanks for reading The Future Does Not Fit In The Containers Of The Past! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Along with our physical health and our family relationships, work is the other significant factor that impacts […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

On Technological Change: 3 Learnings.

Image using Midjourney using prompt “ On technological change” For four decades my career at Publicis Groupe has been deeply intertwined with technology, allowing me to observe its changes across several industries including the communications industry. The communications business has always changed as technology shifted. The company was first a print-based business and then a […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Modern Leadership.

Image by Almosthumankreative using Midjourney. We have entered an age of de-bossification. In many industries, particularly “White-collar” ones, the era of “bosses” is in decline. Less of a clamoring for bosses, managers, controllers, monitors, evaluators, and paper pushers. This shift has been driven by changing demographics, the spread of technology, the rise of unbundled and distributed […]
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Becoming You.

Image using Midjourney by Dorogayairina While it is important to listen to and learn from other people and be aware of what they may  think of us, we should not live in other peoples minds. Worrying about how we will be perceived or how we compare and measure up to others is like handing over […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Organizational Misfit.

The future organization does not fit in the containers or the mindsets of the past. Until around January 2020, most companies operated under the following five assumptions or beliefs: 1. The organization gives structure and directs work. 2. Tenure and experience are critical to advancement. 3. Most of the work is done inside an organization. […]
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  1. Data & Insights

7 Steps to Transformation.

“Between the ideaAnd the reality Between the motionAnd the act Falls the Shadow Between the conceptionAnd the creation Between the emotionAnd the response Falls the Shadow” From “The Hollow Men” by TS Eliot. A trait of leaders and individuals who lead successful transformation is that they excel in overcoming the gap between the idea and […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Rethinking Work.

This post provides an update and a request before we return to regular posts next week. The Update For the past 18 months I have been working on my second book which after having been edited, fact checked, proof read and indexed by a team at HarperCollins is ready to go into production in Hardcover, […]
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  1. Data & Insights

On Words.

The perfect words in the perfect order is one definition of poetry. Another example of the right words is this two minute video: In the modern age of AI, machines will not just compose books using words, but they will speak words with nuance and a range of tonalities. They will translate words into images […]
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  1. Data & Insights

The Power of Accessibility.

Accessibility is a key to successful businesses and individuals. Accessibility is defined as the quality of being easy to approach, reach, enter, speak with, use, or understand. Every individual and business should audit themselves on how accessible they are. a)        Do we speak simply without using buzz-word bingo and with authenticity, clarity and empathy? b)        […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Three Strategic Moves For Adapting And Thriving With AI

The history of AI is over 80 years old. You can learn and view its developments here at the online Computer History Museum. After many ups and downs, false dawns and surviving many winters AI or what Ted Chiang, the author calls “Applied Statistics” has arrived due to a combination of access to swaths of […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Unleashed. Unfurled. Unbundled.

art by tulika ladsariya This is the last of a six part series of why a “company of one mindset” will be critical for career success. The first five posts covered: Adopting a Company of One Mindset 3 Keys for a Company of One Mindset. Future Proofing Careers with a Company of One Mindset. The […]
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  1. Data & Insights

The Next Wave: Fractionalized Employees

image by aryel79 using Mid-Journey This is the fifth in a six part series of why a “company of one mindset” will be critical for career success. The first four posts covered: Adopting a Company of One Mindset 3 Keys for a Company of One Mindset. Future Proofing Careers with a Company of One Mindset. […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Thrills & Perils of a Company of One

image by adamc88 using Mid-Journey This is the fourth in a six part series on the importance of having a “Company of One” mindset. The first three posts covered: Adopting a Company of One Mindset 3 Keys for a Company of One Mindset. Future Proofing Careers with a Company of One Mindset. These posts clearly […]
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  1. Trends & External Forces

CRN thanks groups for amicus support in legal fight

WASHINGTON — The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) on Thursday thanked the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS), The Food Industry Association (FMI) and the Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA) for joining the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in supporting its challenge to a New York state law that restricts the sale of certain dietary […]
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  1. Data & Insights

The 3 Keys:Collaborative. Calm. Connected.

Image by 9400 using Mid-journey This is the second post in a six part series on helping every professional adopt “ A Company of One Mindset” to ensure one can thrive in their current companies while ensuring optionality in a transforming world. The first post built the case of for a “Company of One Mindset” […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Adopt a Company of One Mindset.

Today, exactly five years ago on June 30, 2019, I ended a wonderful 37 year full-time working career at a 100,000 plus person company (though I am fortunate to continue to work with it in a different way) and began a new career as a company of one. During the next few weeks I plan […]
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  1. Trends & External Forces

Different.

Here are a simple set of three exercises that can be done by anyone, anywhere, and at anytime but will likely leave you seeing, thinking and feeling differently. 1.Making a difference. At the end of every day we might want to ask ourselves: How are we different today then yesterday? Did we make a difference […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Expiration Dates.

Image by David Rojkowski using Leica iPhone de Lux. The most important expiration dates are not those on food, subscriptions, insurance policies or medicine. These dates are known. Its the expiration dates that are unknown that matter the most. Image by Selmo Kim Career Expiration. ‘Every career has a midnight hour. The smart people leave […]
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  1. RetailWit

All Free. All On One Page. All Yours.

This is the 200th edition of “The Future Does Not Fit in the Containers of the Past.” Over the course of 200 Sundays in a row (nearly four years) 250,000 words of writing (the equivalent of five books) accompanied by the work of a talented painter, sculptor, photographer have been published at rishad.substack.com. The writing […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Maximizing Optionality.

In career and in life, a key is to maximize optionality. It is important to ensure that except for a life partner, one is not so dependent on a single platform, company, supplier or approach that we loses agency over our future choices. Optionality also matters across a range of areas in order to remain […]
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Shoppers believe best holiday deals are after holidays

A good number of consumers, over 77%, believe there are better deals available after the holidays, and nearly 51% plan to take advantage by making a large purchase in late December and January. Those are top findings from a Holiday Green survey, from CouponCabin, regarding consumer habits in the post-holiday time frame. When it comes to post-holiday […]
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2025 Outlook: A Snapshot into Ad Spend, Opportunities, and Strategies for Growth

IAB’s 2025 Outlook: A Snapshot into Ad Spend, Opportunities, and Strategies for Growth offering an early glimpse into ad spending trends for the coming year. The report is a must-read to gain and understanding of brand and agency buyers’ growth strategies and the challenges they foresee. The report covers: 2025 projections for the market overall […]
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  2. Technology & Innovation

AI at the retail edge: What’s possible now

There’s been a lot of talk lately about artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI (GenAI) and how these technologies are going to revolutionize retail. But the retail revolution can’t be accomplished with sweeping generalizations about putting more technology into stores. Successful retail outcomes are built using technology to solve specific challenges, expanding on wins and […]
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Some retailers would benefit from a TikTok ban in 2025

TikTok Shop took the market by storm in just two years. The social media platform sold more merchandise than Sephora [LVMUY] in late 2024 according to Earnest credit card data. TikTok Shop also handily outperformed during the 2024 holiday season. But a potential ban could result in brands losing access to a vital marketing and […]
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