Month: March 2020
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This is the age of disruption.
We can all agree that the Corona virus has turned the world upside down. But perhaps a more accurate explanation is that the medical and political response to the virus has turned the world upside down. While the effects of the virus are uncertain, one thing is certain: it will be awhile before we know the full impact of […]
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
Decades ago, beer wholesaler warehouses came in all sizes and shapes. The Coors warehouse in Dallas, where I worked in the summers during college, was a building not specifically designed to be a beer warehouse, but it was new and had recently been modified for Coors. The volume at that time was under a million […]
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Execution eats Strategy for lunch.
The long-anticipated expansion of Coors into central and South Texas in 1976 had retailers chopping at the bit. The Coors Brewing Co. appointment process was highly published and hundreds of individuals applied for franchises. As the distributorships were awarded, the media jumped all over those announcements and people were excitedly anticipating the rollout. Coors rolled […]