While bets are being placed on whether the Green Bay Packers will beat the Pittsburgh Steelers for the Super Bowl ring, I’m placing my bet on a dramatic transformation of retail chains’ business models over the next decade.  The football outcome can’t be predicted – both teams are awesome, and we can’t predict players’ energy [...]

In the high-testosterone game of Chicken, two drivers race towards each other at accelerating speeds. The first driver to veer his car off the path loses the game. Clearly win-win solutions fail to exist in this game. Either one player proves his cowardice, or both players crash. A physically safe, but economically lethal game of [...]

I watched Food, Inc. over the holiday weekend, a documentary about US food companies whose products fill grocery store shelves and bins and supply our numerous restaurant chains. I’m a pragmatic independent, so I’m able to see through the one-sided nature of the filmmaker’s criticisms of food companies. But there’s significant merit in the film [...]