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.

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

Cocooning is about insulation and avoidance, peace and protection, coziness and control - a sort of hyper-nesting.

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

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).

The future bears a resemblance to the past, only more so.

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.