Where there is Baccarat, there is love! The Baccarat heart is crafted from the finest crystal, its contours perfectly formed to refract the light. For Valentine’s Day or any occasion, it is the perfect gift to symbolize your affection for your beloved. The depth to the shape echoes the depth of the love it symbolically represents. Glassworks has a plethora of gift ideas for V-Day. Stop in to see your options!
Dress up your Fall tabletop in natural style with this beautiful woven placemat with wood grain beads. Hand crafted of 100% natural exotic vines, adding this rustic chic note to your tablescape make Autumn table styling easy! Set of 4.
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Ronald Reagan said, “If you’re explaining, you’re losing.” Reaganomics usually refers to tax cuts and trickle down economics, yet I propose that we take the Gipper’s quote and ask: How can simplicity contribute to a business's success?
When we share what leading companies do, we can often skip an explanation and sum it up in a brief sentence. Examples:
Bridge has something that every store needs, but doesn’t really want: product data. We get stores to trust us that they need our product data for 64,000 products from 109 brands. They really don’t want the data—they want the sales from it. The data itself is worthless, but the sales from it are invaluable. Do you know who also has this issue? Funeral directors. Last week's Wall Street Journal shares that mortuaries are leveraging bonsai trees, setting up bouncy castles, ...
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Dress up your table top and add a hint of classic character for a formal affair or for a casual gathering with this set of 4 rustic napkin rings woven from natural vines. These simple and natural napkin rings bring an organic appeal and rustic element to each place setting.
You’ve likely had a vodka-Red Bull cocktail in your lifetime, which was followed by a hangover for you—but helped drink co-founder Dietrich Mateschitz amass a $20b fortune. Mateschitz, who passed away last week at the age of 78, discovered the drink in the 1980s in Thailand and built it into a global brand. He promoted Red Bull, whose name is a translation of the drink’s Thai name "Krating Daeng,” via a variety of clever marketing initiatives. In the early 2000s, I ...
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In her new book ‘Quit,' Annie Duke shares that the best poker players only play 25% of the hands they are dealt, whereas others play 50%. Ms. Duke talks with Stewart Butterfield, the founder of a few startups, most recently Slack (which is an acronym, which I didn’t know). Slack wouldn’t have been born if Mr. Butterfield didn’t drop a video game company to start Slack. Likewise for Twitter which was born out of the failed blogging company Odeo. Ms. Duke's lesson: winners ...
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Beat the heat with a bowl of fresh, icy-cold watermelon pops served in a high-quality handwoven basket with a glass bowl insert. Make your summer treats stand out with eye-catching rustic serving. Available in 2Qt and 4Qt.
I don’t own a car, yet I have a strange desire to read Dan Neil's car column each weekend in The Wall St. Journal. Why would someone who doesn’t own a car, won’t be buying one soon, and hasn’t owned one in 25 years read a car column? It's a mix of enjoying the design and technology of automobiles, wanting to know what Dwayne Johnson may be buying next, loving Dan’s witty writing style, and, confession, simply being 13-years old at heart. Cars are ...
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This premium woven placemat and napkin ring brings nostalgic vibe of rusticity. Handwoven by skilled artisans with locally harvested vines, it makes the most beautiful display with any dining events or party theme. Set of 4.
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Did you know that watermelon is 92% water? No wonder it’s so refreshing! Dig into this tasty, juicy fruit served in this handcrafted organic woven bowl with 2Qt glass insert. There`s nothing like beating the heat with summertime`s most refreshing fruit in this earthy rustic look! Also available in 4QT.
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This past week, Amazon announced it was adding Grubhub delivery to its Prime subscription (Read the news about Amazon and Grubhub here). The goal of Amazon Prime (and other subscription services) is to make the subscription so pervasive that it's sticky. Don’t like Prime movies? Ok, but you love free Grubhub delivery. If you don’t need feature X and want to cancel, you realize you still need feature Y and keep paying for the subscription.
In the movie Good Will Hunting, Matt Damon, who plays a handsome MIT janitor moonlighting as a math savant (can one say, “Hollywood career vehicle”?), woos a young lady (played by the actress Minnie Driver) by outmaneuvering a few competing, obnoxious cads. When Damon’s character gets the girl's telephone number, he proudly shows it to the other guys and boasts, with his South Boston access, “How 'bout ‘dem apples?” I imagine Tim Cook imitating this...
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The next book our Bridge team may read is John List’s book The Voltage Effect. List, who is a behavioral economist at the University of Chicago, shares a variety of suggestions to grow a business. He warns us about false positives, such as what the “Just Say No” drug campaign experienced. He suggests we look for businesses with scalable ingredients. (People are not scalable, but good news for Bridge: software is!)
I'd add to List's advice this simple maxim: show ...
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My friend works at the Swiss running shoemaker ON. She recently texted me and suggested I try their running shoes. Three weeks later, I was handling two boxes of their Swiss engineered shoes. On one ON shoe, there is a little Swiss flag and the words “Swiss Engineering” printed. When I get a pair of Nike’s, they don’t say "Beaverton-engineering" or "US-engineering." Nor do Adidas shoes proclaim “German engineering.” ...
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We're serving up MacKenzie-Childs rainbows! π Bring much-needed color to the table this summer, while hosting gatherings with your friends and family, with Rainbow Fish platters and dishes. π½οΈβ€οΈπ
Also, it's nearly last call for Father's Day gifts. Stop at the Shadyside store for a selection of gift ideas.
The Brick report helps our company track our past and current progress. Our team can easily look back at the last 78 weeks and know what we did. (Most companies would be hard pressed to do this easily.) The Brick brings us together and keeps us on the same (web)page. Its success leads to me ask: “Could we have an approach that helps us look at our future?" I’ve sometimes thought about crafting a weekly 'Horizon Report' that would share what’s next for us.
Bring natural and rustic element to each table setting featuring organic napkin ring holders . Beautifully handwoven from natural vines and easy to pair with pastel and dark tones, adding multi-textural accent to your tablescape. Set of 4.
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Father's Day is in 10 days! Visit Glassworks in Shadyside to find a gift for Dad. Perfect for paleontologists, dinosaur lovers, or Jurassic movie fans: Artel's breathtakingly detailed DINOSAUR I Collection features six different prehistoric creatures that are available either individually or as a set of six glasses. π¦ Includes: Parasaurolophus, Triceratops, Brontosaurus, T-Rex, Pterodactyl, and Stegosaurus. Artel's sea motif collection also available.
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