This is a dream as old as America itself: give me a piece of land to call my own, a little town where everyone knows my name.

Send me out into another life. But get me back for supper.

America is a consumer culture, and when we change what we buy - and how we buy it - we'll change who we are.

Too many marketers assume that future will hold back and wait until they're ready for it. It won't.

The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office).

Women are opening businesses at twice the rate of men ... Forty percent of businesses will be owned by women. Women are saying, I don't belong in this company. I'm sick of fighting this battle.

The cliches of a culture sometimes tell the deepest truths.