Where Have All the Retail Managers Gone? A Shift with Significant Implications
| | | |

Where Have All the Retail Managers Gone? A Shift with Significant Implications

The Impact of Flattening Retail Leadership I have been in retail for a long time — long enough to see retail initiative pendulums swing from one extreme to the other time and time again. Retail never seems comfortable in the middle. With the seemingly constant evolution we have to go through in order to keep…

retail trends
| | | | | | | | | | | |

4 Trending Retail Management Themes for the Coming Year

Another year is drawing to a close, and as is usual in retail, whew, what a year! Change is always part of the retail story, but with change can come some exciting new opportunities—if you’re prepared to seize them. The evolution of brick and mortar continues, as both traditional retailers and formerly online-only retailers experiment…

Are Your Managers Prepared to Win Retail’s War for Talent?
| | |

Are Your Managers Prepared to Win Retail’s War for Talent?

Whenever there’s a tough labor market, like there is now, the spotlight returns to recruiting and interviewing skills. But retailers need to do a better job of developing a mindset of recruiting as a continual process, not an isolated event. Smart managers are building recruiting networks to find and attract the talent they need to meet…