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Solutions for the butts in seats debate: time to get creative and listen to our customers/employees, part 2

by Elaine Worzala | Dec 14, 2021 | The Professor

Last week, I started the discussion of the great debate that is actually turning into the great resignation. Employees are talking with their feet and when a company starts demanding that they come back to the office they make the choice that it’s time to find a more...

Mr Socialist confesses a love of opera

by Garrison Keillor | Dec 13, 2021 | The Storyteller, zOtherDiversions

Free enterprise is fascinating, especially for us socialist communists who want to make the world into a dormitory with a cafeteria where on Mondays everyone has mac and cheese and on Tuesdays franks and beans, and so forth, but with free enterprise you get to see old...

Amazon and Tesco’s checkout-free stores

by Kokho Jason Sit | Dec 13, 2021 | The Professor, zLead Article, zNewsletter

A niche idea that won’t save the high street. There have never been so many different ways to shop for groceries. The biggest chains offer customers a choice of vast superstores, smaller branches and online options to buy from home. Now some of the UK’s best-known...

The butts in seats debate: perspectives from a self-proclaimed super mom, part 1

by Elaine Worzala | Dec 9, 2021 | The Professor

We’ve come a long way, baby, but we still have a long way to go! Wow, 40 years is a long time and the commercial property market has come a long way. We’re now a legitimate asset class. We have lots and lots of people following our...

A pandemic of armchair experts

by Daniel Read | Dec 9, 2021 | The Professor, zNewsletter

How we decide who and what to believe We appear to live in an age of misinformation. Certain broadcasters and social-media celebrities openly promote fake facts or misrepresentations of science and data to their audience, many of whom do not seem to care whether...