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New Apple Retail Chief Was Highly Involved in Burberry's Watch Retailing Efforts, Was Hired Over The Summer
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Look into Skagen watches to solve at least these two problems. As a man with dainty girl wrists I wore no watch for a long time because I couldn't stand the bulge. Skagen keeps it slim. The one I wear is 6mm thick.
If that's what the "iWatch" is, then there's no way in hell that I want it.
Many people have given up on a watch because it's redundant for telling time. We have clocks and phones and clocks on computer screens, etc.
Today watches are primarily fashion accessories. Which I have no interest in.
Now, if it's a wrist worn device that has multiple bio-metric sensors, discrete notification of alerts, then I might be interested. It won't bother me if it can also tell time, but if that's its main function then I afraid it's a pass.
Funny how nobody comments on how the men look that are hired. John Browett was a real winner /s
It will be interesting to see what happens. I teach in a business school and I teach my students that most senior-level executives are intuitive decision makers. When researchers ask them how they made a good decisions, they say "it just felt right in my gut."
They can do this because they have developed their "gut" by making thousands of decisions and developing a mental model for good decisions that they actually don't consciously understand.
So, when you take a leader from one industry and put them in another, their gut fails them. That's why John Scully failed, because he tried to use the gut he developed in the soft drink industry to guide a computer company.
So, can she be successful? Only time will tell.
They can do this because they have developed their "gut" by making thousands of decisions and developing a mental model for good decisions that they actually don't consciously understand.
So, when you take a leader from one industry and put them in another, their gut fails them. That's why John Scully failed, because he tried to use the gut he developed in the soft drink industry to guide a computer company.
So, can she be successful? Only time will tell.
So it's not that she's unattractive, but this is probably the BEST picture ever taken/touched-up of her....she's over 50 years old and this pic makes it look like she's in her 30's.
Outside of that, I'm not sure how her work with Burberry will translate to dealing with the average schlubs that buy from Apple.
Outside of that, I'm not sure how her work with Burberry will translate to dealing with the average schlubs that buy from Apple.
I keep reading "Burberry" as "Blackberry" and it causes some confusion for me (and a little heart-drop at first).
Agree, but my point is that he tried to change too much too soon. It's the difference between the tale of tossing a frog in boiling water & it hops out or putting it in cold water and slowly ramping up the heat. All the sudden changes alienated JCP's base & sales plummeted from almost nothing to nothing.
It's the equivalent of if Apple switched to Intel but didn't provide users with Rosetta. Customers need hand holding during major transitions.
Johnson was not the problem. JCP was the problem. JCP will end up down the bowl. Johnson will be fine.
True. Stores like Kohl's and JC Penney sell few goods at the MSRP. Have perpetual "sales" and people will think they are getting ripped off if they aren't getting "30% off" or "free" coupons even if the actual selling prices are dropped.
Johnson should have test-marketed the new approach. JCP may have been a lost cause anyway, but Johnson's approach to turn a Wal-Mart competitor into a mirror image of Apple was misguided. I'm guessing he'll do a better job if given a chance at another struggling retailer (cough Sears/Kmart cough).
Not Carly Failorina
Carly had already wrecked Lucent though when HP was idiotic enough to hire her (well, medieval history is her speciality, and HP's board is nothing if not a crazy medieval fiefdom, so in a sense the two were a perfect match).
Ahrendts has been an incredible success at Burberry, for going on a decade. The two have nothing in common, apart from gender.
It's also important to note that Ahrendts won't be CEO of Apple - she's just running the retail arm, something she's proven she's more than capable of. Apple is in much better shape than Burberry was when she took over.
I still remember how well hiring Carly Fiorina (Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and medieval history from Stanford University) as CEO of HP worked for them
Carly had already wrecked Lucent though when HP was idiotic enough to hire her (well, medieval history is her speciality, and HP's board is nothing if not a crazy medieval fiefdom, so in a sense the two were a perfect match).
Ahrendts has been an incredible success at Burberry, for going on a decade. The two have nothing in common, apart from gender.
It's also important to note that Ahrendts won't be CEO of Apple - she's just running the retail arm, something she's proven she's more than capable of. Apple is in much better shape than Burberry was when she took over.
On top of that, Ahrendts specifically told European publications that she was against gender quotas for board members and CEOs (one of the latest EU "directives" gaining traction). She was thrilled to be selected as CEO, but didn't want her sex to play any role whatsoever. Simply put, she wanted to be the best candidate who happened to be a woman than the best woman who happened to be a candidate for CEO of Burberry. She's a Margaret Thatcher in that regard. The Iron Lady had to be better than all of her male counterparts to be considered for the job. All the better for Britain that she got the nod. Hopefully the same is true for Apple's retail operations.
She's not going to be designing the iWatch, people.
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Nah, everyone talks about the looks of the male executives too (though usually not in flattering terms). The only difference is, if it was another white male who got the job there'd be people complaining that Apple needs to hire more women/minorities. So at least the pro-affirmative action crowd is silenced.
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Nah, everyone talks about the looks of the male executives too (though usually not in flattering terms). The only difference is, if it was another white male who got the job there'd be people complaining that Apple needs to hire more women/minorities. So at least the pro-affirmative action crowd is silenced.
Ah I see. Yes they do seem rather quiet. Where is the cheering?? Apple's only female executive people! Wake up!
No, it's just that her nose isn't wide enough.
@MR That aside, does this 'news' really warrant a new thread though? Surely an update to this would have sufficed? At least you could have chosen a different picture (one with the eyes not so close together, for kickdacatt's benefit).