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design will continue to be, as it always has been, an agent of change that can help us to organize our lives to suit our needs and wishes, and wields immense power to influence them, for better and for worse.
Alice Rawsthorn • Hello World: Where Design Meets Life
I remember watching “Gapgate” unfold. It bummed me out. Gap shouldn’t have ceded to vocal Facebook groups. It should have remained in control of its brand, even if it had to fake it. Gap should have dictated what Gap was, even if that meant being defined by amateur design. I understand that companies on Gap’s level are beholden to shareholders and ... See more
Bobby Hundreds • This Is Not a T-Shirt
Good brands are immune to fundamental transformation. Conceding to having become one at age thirty would have meant foreclosing on what I saw as my prerogative to change, evolve, and hopefully improve. It would have locked me into performing this particular version of me, indefinitely.
Naomi Klein • Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
At such firms (in contrast to many competitors), high growth is not a declared goal. Rather, such firms aim for controlled growth. The approach is one of, “We’ll grow as fast as we can train our people.” As Ron Daniel of McKinsey phrases it: “We neither shun growth nor idolize it. We view it as a by-product of achieving our other goals.”