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When Change is Good

Accord­ing to an arti­cle in the New York Times (Feb­ru­ary 29, 2008), “more than one in 100 Amer­i­can adults are behind bars.” It some­times seems like our leg­is­la­tors are hell­bent on turn­ing us into a nation of jail­birds. Rocket sci­en­tists, alas, are a much rarer species. This can have embar­rass­ing con­se­quences for those of us […]

Dead Guys Finish Last

How impor­tant is a brand’s her­itage? I’d say it depends on the prod­uct cat­e­gory. With auto­mo­biles, for instance, evi­dence indi­cates that a brand’s her­itage does play a part in the buy­ing deci­sion. For a now rapidly dwin­dling seg­ment of elderly car buy­ers who fondly recall the grand old Gen­eral Motors (GM) brand in its heyday, […]