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  • Innovation, the Upside-Down Garden and GYO.v2

    If you've not been paying attention, there's a new grow-your-own gardening craze: the upside-down garden. According to an article in the New York Times gardeners throughout the US are taking containers - homemade and bought - turning them upside-down, hanging them up and getting great results...
    Posted to Kossoff on... (Weblog) by Leslie L Kossoff on 05-22-2010

  • Resources

    This is a different sort of blog post. I'm writing to tell you about online resources I provide - at no cost - to help you more easily make your way through the problems and challenges you confront as well as to identify and move ahead on the opportunities that present themselves. First, besides...
    Posted to Kossoff on... (Weblog) by Leslie L Kossoff on 02-01-2010

  • Garden Retail and the Wi-Fi Conundrum

    Anyone who has read anything I've written about garden retail knows that there is one cafe constant you'll always hear from me: If you have a cafe, you should have Wi-Fi available. (Actually, there are two. The other one has to do with loyalty cards, but we'll save that for another time....
    Posted to Kossoff on... (Weblog) by Leslie L Kossoff on 01-09-2010

  • The Branding Thing

    Recently, Farming Today has been focusing on the various foods that have received protected status from the EU. That got me thinking about branding. It's because of the guy who was talking about Cornish sardines. I have to admit, I'd never thought much about sardines. My mom used to love them...
    Posted to Kossoff on... (Weblog) by Leslie L Kossoff on 12-15-2009

  • Costco, Sam's Club and Building Customer Trust

    From The Thinking Executive blog: Recently, I've been thinking a lot about trust. It's one of those personal and corporate commodities that is so easy to establish and maintain but even easier to lose. And when it's lost, it's incredibly hard to regain. Not impossible - because trust...
    Posted to Kossoff on... (Weblog) by Leslie L Kossoff on 11-18-2009

  • Herbivores, Carnivores...Now Locavores!

    The people making up the trend to eat local now have a name. Locavores! For them it doesn't matter whether it's meat, veg, fruit or dairy. They want local. They want to know that the food they're buying and eating comes from their own area. Even better, these locavores want community - and...
    Posted to Kossoff on... (Weblog) by Leslie L Kossoff on 08-14-2009

  • The Truth About Consultants

    Early in my career I learned two important things. The first is that most of the answers any executive needs are already resident within the organization. In effect, you and your people already know what needs to be done. You're just not doing it. (We'll get to that later.) The second is that...
    Posted to Kossoff on... (Weblog) by Leslie L Kossoff on 06-25-2009

  • Managing Your Costs

    It's easy, during a downturn, to say that you have to manage your costs. However, best of breed executives and owners know that cost management is crucial all the time - because no matter what the economy is doing, cash is king, queen and the whole court - and you have to make sure you're managing...
    Posted to Kossoff on... (Weblog) by Leslie L Kossoff on 04-30-2009
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