by Rick | Dec 31, 2013 | Blog
George Zimmer founded Men’s Warehouse forty years ago using a cigar box as a cash register then grew it into 1,239 stores. You’ve most likely heard him say, “You’re going to like the way you look, I guarantee it.” He recently discovered, by email, he was...
by Rick | Dec 25, 2013 | Blog, Inspirational
The best Christmas present I ever received as a child was secondhand; it had belonged to some other ten-year-old boy and my parents picked it up in a thrift shop because they couldn’t afford a new one. There is something in that memory that wraps my heart around a...
by Rick | Dec 21, 2013 | Blog
Floyd Hammer and his wife, Kathy, are founders of the not-for-profit Outreach, Inc., in Union, IA. I met them first in 2008 as they helped me establish a meal-packaging organization, then I purchased 25 million meals worth of ingredients and the equipment to package...
by Rick | Dec 17, 2013 | Blog
“And, of course, with the birth of the first artist came the inevitable afterbirth- the critic.” – Mel Brook’s “Birth of the Art Critic.” From the time we were little kids and let the crayons slip outside the line, someone will point out where they think we went...
by Rick | Dec 13, 2013 | Blog
Perhaps you know a normally compassionate person who hates Christmas. Some people hate Christmas- or at least the Christmas season- for all the right reasons. Here are just a few: Obligation to buy gifts Pressure to spend money Crass materialism that takes away from...
