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What Martha Stewart Built Before Her Category Had a Name
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: Martha Stewart was building what we would now call a personal brand, creator business and lifestyle empire years before the language existed to describe any of it. Her story is a useful reminder that sometimes the work becomes clear before the category does. When Martha Stewart started…
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Retirement or Readjustment?
Yesterday I had lunch with a friend in his seventies. We hadn’t seen each other in a long time, so there was plenty to catch up on. At one point he mentioned that retirement wasn’t in the cards for him. It wasn’t about financial necessity. His business is successful, his future secure. He continues because…

