Maytag

  • Time to read

    There is a time to listen and a time to read. That time is now. At lunch or in line. The WSJ runs a a picture of an “early adopter” (old lady wrapped herself in a good book, digital that is). For her, what a lifetime that was: out of the house to go to…

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  • Time to heal

    Of the 5 stages of grief, the first one goes away the quickest (denial). The last stage, acceptance, takes the longest (not without some relapses). I wass at my parent’s graves this past Thanksgiving. A bit of acceptance there. Trophies, college degrees and even old business cards showed our accomplishments. But they are not indicators…

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  • The Maytag man finally wakes up from a long nap! Pent-up demand pushes consumers to go out and spend on big-ticket items such as refrigerators, washers and dryers. Walmart got a law suit for paying men more than women for the same job. Our calendar is very consumer-friendly i.e. plenty of  shopping events, from Mothers…

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  • Load balancing

    A few years back, we got headlines like “women made strides with Nobel prizes“. And I remember hearing our shared winner of Economics said she studied ways which societies managed to share work load, from fisheries to farming. I assumed she was trying to crack the “non-zero sum” code, or something similar to Network Theory…

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