Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Playing to win & agile (Medium)
• What are we going to wear (NYT)
• After a year of pandemic prudence, Canadians eager to spend billions saved (CBC)
• Eating ice cream is much better than investing in it (Crunchbase)
• U.K. grocer Morrisons faces $7.6 billion takeover battle (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Retail apocalypse: Four ways physical stores can survive (BCG)
• Navigating the retail storm through supply chain agility (McKinsey)
• The lure of H Mart, where the shelves can seem as wide as Asia (NYT)
• The benefits of working from home two days a week (The Atlantic)
• Inside Jeff Bezos' obsessions (NYT)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: It's time to toss SWOT analysis into the ashbin of strategy history (Medium)
• The forgotten shipping pallet stages a pandemic-era rally (Bloomberg)
• Are you confused by scientific jargon? So are scientists (NYT)
• McDonald's is closing hundreds of its Walmart restaurants (WSJ)
• Have we taken agile too far (HBR)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Can you be both cost leader & differentiator (Medium)
• Scandal, lawsuits, and cultural upheaval at McDonald's (Fortune)
• Retailers seen closing thousands of stores, even after the pandemic (Bloomberg)
• Craftmanship: The key to developing talent in an agile organization (McKinsey)
• The anchoring effect (St. Louis Fed)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Cineplex CEO confident moviegoers will return (Globe and Mail)
• The best story wins (Collaborative Fund)
• Adopting agile processes in consumer companies (McKinsey)
• Vegan chocolate race heats up as Nestle plans rice-based KitKat (Bloomberg)
• A big test of reusable packaging for groceries comes to Canada (CBC)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• 2019 Person of the Year: Brian Cornell (Twin Cities Business)
• How 'direct-to-consumer' blew up retail (BoF)
• Is our misguided affair with agility putting speed ahead of good work (Quartz)
• Why Illinois will rule the meatless future (Chicago Mag)
• From the archives (2012): How Dollarama turns pocket change into billions (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• The truth about open offices (HBR)
• The first map of America's food supply chain is mind-boggling (Fast Company)
• H&M CEO sees 'terrible' fallout as consumer shaming spreads (Bloomberg)
• Diaper rush: Conquering a $9 billion market no one wants to talk about (Reuters)
• The story of the Entenmann family bakery fortune (Town & Country)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Are you agile enough for agile management (WSJ)
• Packaging solutions. Poised to take off? (McKinsey)
• Why do appliances have their own jingles (The Atlantic)
• It's hot. It's August. It's pumpkin spice time? (NYT)
• As customers begin to shop through voice assistants, what can brands do to stand out (HBR)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Meet the woman behind Amazon's explosive growth (Fast Company)
• Agile is not enough (MIT Sloan Management Review)
• Mapping the US gastronomic borders (The Pudding)
• Jack Ma again endorses extreme overtime as furor rages on (Bloomberg)
• Oh we don't sell food at this restaurant, we purvey provisions (McSweeney's)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Investing in retailer's most important assets (Bain)
• How a Long Island chef became a certified snail farmer (NYT)
• Retailer Fred's hires adviser as it tries to turn around business (WSJ)
• Agile in the consumer goods industry (McKinsey)
• Why you can't buy Pakistani flu remedy Johar Joshanda tea in the U.S. (Eater)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Booze dynasties control $70 billion of world's liquor wealth (Bloomberg)
• The ever-changing store (McKinsey)
• Consumer products: Now's the time to double down on China (Bain)
• Kellogg's new Pringles fail to make waves (WSJ)
• Warby Parker had a message. It's customers didn't care. Here's how it changed its message (Inc)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Internet beef is taking advantage of not-so-hot supermarket meat (Bloomberg)
• GM, Door Dash to test autonomous vehicle deliveries (WSJ)
• Stitch Fix's success is underappreciated (Bloomberg)
• The five trademarks of agile organizations (McKinsey)
• As big retailers seek to cut their tax bills, towns bear the brunt (NYT)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Kohl's cracks the retail code (Fortune)
• Casper co-founder predicts the death of (bad) retail (WSJ)
• Agile to the rescue in retail (BCG)
• Don't let lazy managers drive away your top performers (HBR)
• How companies get you to pay more for the same product (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Fish: The final frontier in fake meat (WSJ)
• Bringing managers back to work (BCG)
• Six things you need to know about the future of retail (Wired)
• Aldi and Lidl included in Sainsbury's-Asda competition probe (BBC)
• Food companies seek to boot their dated brands (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Why agile goes awry - and how to fix it (HBR)
• Macy's hires employees to be influencers (The Atlantic)
• Dan Loeb ramps up pressure on Campbell Soup, urges asset sales (Bloomberg)
• Amazon to raise its minimum U.S. wage to $15 an hour (WSJ)
• Amazon's $15 minimum wage is a brilliant business strategy (The Atlantic)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• What will the world eat in the next decade (Bloomberg)
• Taking agile beyond the tipping point (BCG)
• Kroger says it is phasing out its plastic bags (NPR)
• There's only one way to break into China's crowded retail market (HBR)
• How the coffee industry is building a sustainable supply chain in an unstable region (Kellogg Insight)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Meet the 'million-dollar palate' behind a flood of new foods (NYT)
• Agile to the rescue in consumer goods (BCG)
• Home Depot sets $1.2 billion supply chain overhaul (WSJ)
• Speed and precision as the new supply chain drivers (McKinsey)
• Why meal kits are moving offline (Eater)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• How organic wine finally caught on (HBR)
• The organizational agenda in consumer packaged goods (McKinsey)
• Sweetgreen's tech-driven menu shakes up the fast casual food war (Bloomberg)
• Rules of engagement: How cities are courting Amazon's new headquarters (WSJ)
• La Colombe hires Moelis in bid for $1 billion valuation (Bloomberg)