Recently our consumer insights strategy team presented an insights-filled session on Generation Y trends. Immediately, I thought… “Great, a session just to make me feel older!” Being in my 30’s, I’m starting to feel like an old woman now when I have to “study” 18-21 year olds. I used to be right there in this [...]
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One snowy night in January, my friend Lauren Metz and I braved the weather to meet for dinner at a quaint Italian restaurant in Midtown. As we were catching up on our lives (new jobs, relationship milestones, etc.), we started analyzing the Quarter Life that we – along with all of our friends – were [...]
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Remember that adage about dressing for the job you want, not the one you have? Here’s better advice: start working for the job you want, not the one you have. And thanks an article in Sunday’s Times called “Distilling the Wisdom of CEO’s,” it’s never been easier to figure out what characteristics are shared by [...]
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Every few years, I head down to New Orleans. The place has had a magnetic pull on me, ever since my first visit there more than 25 years ago. The last time was in 2007, less than two years after Katrina. When the city was devastated in 2005, I wondered if I’d ever make [...]
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The other day I was out near the end of the internet when I landed on this site called 99%. I was immediately pulled in, because as any New Jerseyan knows, Thomas Edison said something about success being 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration. (And certainly it worked for him, resulting in the phonograph, the light [...]
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Yes, the Bronx Zoo Cobra has been found, and no, that wasn’t him popping out of the can on The Today Show this morning. Matt Lauer was just pulling the classic prank on his co-anchor Ann Curry. It was my first reminder that today was April Fool’s Day and therefore I needed to be skeptical [...]
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Help! Promotional Emails Ate My Inbox – Part 1
While I usually make an effort to defy stereotypes, there is one about women that is very much true about me – I love to shop. And not just the buying and acquiring part. No, I love the whole experience – online and offline. Sifting/clicking through racks and pages, thinking about how it will fit [...]
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