Managing Smart people

What if he or she, meaning the team member, is smarter than you?  Really, yep…what if?  They do this and that.  They make really great decisions and you look at them and think (please don’t say out loud) “you are pretty amazing, please don’t leave.”  By the way, they will.  Retail is not the industry […]

Management from weird places

OK, I am going to attempt something a bit odd.  I am going to weave three, initially non sequitur completely random things into a management point of view…sleeping downstairs, my cat sneezing and a haircut.  Wow, even I think this seems daunting. I sleep downstairs sometimes.  Yes, my basement bedroom.  I snore on occasions; especially […]