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“PAPA’S GOT A BRAND NEW BAG” -James Brown
by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog
Taking a trip to Kenya? Leave you plastic bags at home or face a $40,000 fine with up to 4 years in prison! Seems a little over the top? Two years ago, the Kenyans suddenly enacted the world’s toughest ban against single-use plastic bags. According to the Kenyans, “A...
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POPULISM IS EXPENSIVE!
by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog
Trade wars never completely go away. Once a market can no longer afford your products, they shop elsewhere. Once they have established a new supplier or developed a less expensive alternative, you are basically done in that market! The problem with populism is that it...
by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog, Contributed Article
STORY AS COMMUNICATION, FROM CAVEMAN TO WALKMAN When humans listen to a story something amazing happens. each individual in a crowd reaches into their own personal memories to create and complete the scenes in which the action takes place. In other words, they source...
“IT’S OUR COUNTRY”
by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Environment
As the clock runs out on the world’s opportunity to mitigate the climate crisis, the new president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, is poised to continue the destruction of the “lungs of the world,” the Amazon Rain Forest. He thinks the environmentalists in his own...
HOT TIME IN THE OLD TOWN TONIGHT!
by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog
It’s All Climate-Related We just returned from Washington, DC, where we spent the better part of a week. It was hot! Not just hot, but all-time record hot at night! Just when you thought it would finally cool down, nighttime broke all the records for heat. It is...
by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog
PARTICIPATION = SATISFACTION In 1996 Jerry Maguire, an aspiring sports agent, repeated a four word request to his first and only client: “Help me help you!” And you know where that got him. The feedback gave him the direction he needed to become the one of the...
GETTING REMEDIAL
by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog
Has this ever happened to you? After a series of meetings with the big organization, suddenly there’s a new person in the room, they monopolize the meeting, and set the progress back to square one. “I’m not convinced we should do this!” they say and then spend the...
SHOPPING FOR FUN!
by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog
Younger Generation That Shops at Bricks and Mortar Stores If you were born between 1997 and 2012 you are referred to as “Gen Z.” Makes you wonder what’s next since “Z” is the last letter of the alphabet. But that aside, this new generation prefers to shop in old...
by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog
What your people to be more productive? Here’s a novel idea: open the window. That’s right. Give them some fresh air. According to Joseph G. Allen, assistant professor and director of the Healthy Buildings program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the...
by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog, Contributed Article
Hi! We are Michael and Bonnie, the founders of the world’s largest wine brand. Did you know that we used crowdsourcing to build Barefoot Wine? Sure, it wasn’t called “Crowdsourcing” back then, but it was the secret to our success! If Necessity is the Mother of...
