When you do a scan of the business news, it seems that a high percentage of items concerns legal findings, fights and fines. Take just some of the notable cases in the news this past week, for example: Google was fined €4.13B by a European court for using its mobile...
The subject of purpose in business has become almost commonplace in discussions these days. I certainly have seen a lot of conversations online and, more recently, rooms on Clubhouse centered on the notion of developing purpose. The intentions are inevitably pleasant...
Minter Dialogue with Doug Stephens Talk about a timely podcast! Jeff Bezos apparently told his employees: “‘One day, Amazon will fail’ but our job is to delay it as long as possible” [from CNBC on Nov 15 2018]. That’s exactly the...
In New York, there are now two full-fledged Amazon Books stores, both of which were opened in 2017. I visited both sites, one at the Time Warner Center (Columbus Circle) and the other downtown (34th Street). I wanted to record my thoughts about the experience....
The $13.7B purchase of Whole Foods by Amazon this summer will be a bell-weather for Amazon's future. Click To Tweet Will Amazon transform Whole Foods or vice versa? As this WSJ article posits, so far the impact seems to be the former. Naturally, the whole reason...