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Why Hippies Make Great Business Leaders

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Michael Klassen : After three decades of working in marketing, I thought I had heard or read nearly every story of innovation and entrepreneurship out there. Along with products, Haight-Ashbury hippies conceived of innovative ideas that transformed product development and advertising. He received his Ph.D.

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When a Mid-Career Move Falls Flat: The Story of Stripedshirt

Harvard Business Review

” So in 2010, after a successful 18-year-career in high-tech PR, she quit her job to launch Stripedshirt , a company selling fashionable, feminine shirts in team colors. The first was about inventory, which is especially hard in apparel. She’d dutifully don a Red Sox jersey, but she’d quietly seethe. What went wrong?

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