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Meet the merchants: Kira Powell

Imagine your organization is growing, with plans for significant development in the years to come. Imagine now that you require a retail leader. Not only

Lean in as a leader

For several of my early years in this industry, I played at being the smartest guy in the room. It included working hard at keeping

The winning traits for course success

After decades of wearing a buyer’s cap, the great recession hit me, as it did millions of men and women across every industry, every business,

Meet the merchants: Laura Alcocer

Back, long ago, in another place and time, I was named the buyer in a golf retail space I had walked into just weeks earlier.

Keeping score with your employees

Today, we live in a society built very much around sports. We watch sports, play sports, or participate in an exercise plan that helps us

People vs. process

A question has been taking up space in my head for a long time—about twenty years. It was a question laid out to me as