The Maritz Institute is anchored in an ideal or goal we call Better Business. Better Lives.  We believe that the science of human behavior can come together with the art of great design to create meetings and motivation programs that not only make businesses better, they also enrich the lives of the people touched by these programs.  [...]

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Last week, I attended (and presented at)the Retailing Summit put on by the Center for Retailing Studies at Texas A&M University. There was a compelling storyline at the Summit that went like this …. Retailers must be prepared for a flat to declining retail market Craig Boyan, the CEO of H-E-B, one of the nation’s [...]

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  I had the opportunity to speak about “Delivering the Brand Promise from the Inside-Out” at last week’s Retailing Summit sponsored by Texas A&M. I felt very fortunate to speak alongside an impressive line-up of academic and business leaders including:Raj Sisodia, Author & Professor, Conscious Capitalism; John Mackey, co-CEO, Whole Foods Market;Tom Lamb, SVP Marketing, [...]

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This statement is controversial. While many business leaders see a new normal emerging where we will never go back to the way things were, others simply see us weathering an economic crisis that, in time, will come to an end and things will return to normal.

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