Stop competing on price; compete on value. Deliver total consumer solutions, rather than just your piece of the solution.

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.

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

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

The cliches of a culture sometimes tell the deepest truths.

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

Cocooning: The need to protect oneself from the harsh, unpredictable realities of the outside world.