Speaker 1: This show is produced and hosted by Mark Webber. The
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Speaker 1: or iHeartMedia. Who is Mark Weber. He's a self made
Speaker 1: business executive here to help you find your success from
Speaker 1: the New York City projects to the Avenue Montaigne in Paris.
Speaker 1: His global success story in the luxury world of fashion
Speaker 1: is inspirational. He's gone from clerk to CEO twice. Mark
Speaker 1: is classic proof that the American dream is alive and well,
Speaker 1: here's your host of Always in Fashion, Mark Weber.
Speaker 2: Mark Weber, as my hair turns gray in fact of
Speaker 2: life a kick consolation that it comes with wisdom. I'm
Speaker 2: not complaining. I have a full, serious, full head of hair.
Speaker 2: Go on Instagram Always in Fashion you'll see. But there's
Speaker 2: no question that wisdom. You get a chance to go
Speaker 2: far wiser and at the same time look back on
Speaker 2: what you've done and consider what you would have done differently.
Speaker 2: Now I don't believe and would have, could have and
Speaker 2: should haves. What's done is done. You could learn from
Speaker 2: what you did right or you learn from what you
Speaker 2: did wrong. In life and business, we make choices. Some
Speaker 2: things would be nice to do, others you should do,
Speaker 2: and then there are things you must do. Example, in life,
Speaker 2: you decide to play pickaball, be nice to buy those
Speaker 2: new pickuball sneakers you saw, or I must buy them
Speaker 2: to match my outfit or protect my ankles. Those are choices.
Speaker 2: That's a silly example because you don't have to do
Speaker 2: any of them. Well, you could do all of them.
Speaker 2: You don't need an excuse. In business, it would be
Speaker 2: nice to add dollars to my marketing budget, make me
Speaker 2: feel like I'm doing the right thing. Or should I
Speaker 2: add dollars to my advertising budget? Or I must add
Speaker 2: advertising dollars because I'm launching a new product and I
Speaker 2: must get the message out there. Reminds me of one
Speaker 2: of my favorite By the way, maybe some of you've
Speaker 2: heard it. Building a brand without advertising is like kissing
Speaker 2: a girl in the dark. You know what you're doing,
Speaker 2: but nobody else does. Back on point, you don't get
Speaker 2: to do doovers. Once it's done, it's done. You can
Speaker 2: take corrective actions, even make apologies for your mistakes, or
Speaker 2: most importantly, you get to learn and improve. It's a reboot,
Speaker 2: you reset yourself. I've been thinking about myself. Lots of
Speaker 2: time on my hands, lots of walking, playing at summer.
Speaker 2: I'm enjoying and reflecting. I like being Mark Weber, but
Speaker 2: it doesn't take away from the fact that I know
Speaker 2: I'm an acquired taste. I'm selective, reclusive, I have issues
Speaker 2: with humans that often leads me to be short on patience,
Speaker 2: and I live life without a filter. I say what
Speaker 2: I want, when I want, how I want. Worst of all,
Speaker 2: I think i'm funny or even clever, and I know
Speaker 2: whenever I think I'm funny, I'm getting into trouble. And
Speaker 2: I've had lots of trouble these last few weeks. I'm
Speaker 2: a master of unsolicited advice, telling people what I think
Speaker 2: about the way they look, the way they dress, the
Speaker 2: way they do things without them asking me. Who's Mark Weber?
Speaker 2: The show asked up front. Like everyone, I have many sides, father,
Speaker 2: business and friend to a few curious scholarly, I'm an
Speaker 2: observer and a commentator. All told, this filterless guy, this
Speaker 2: funny guy, unfortunately, may have offended some people inadvertently, and
Speaker 2: tonight I'm rebooting you know what. Before I get started,
Speaker 2: let me bring in someone who I have not inadvertently
Speaker 2: said anything wrong about, at least I don't think my lawyer,
Speaker 2: my co host, and my son, Jesse Weber. Hey, Jesse,
Speaker 2: how you you're right? You're right.
Speaker 3: You never inadvertently insulted me. You do it directly to
Speaker 3: my face. There's a difference. There's a difference in you
Speaker 3: intentionally you let me know that you're making fun of me.
Speaker 2: I've had two instances I want to call out. The
Speaker 2: first instance involves me showing it up and awards them
Speaker 2: and working the crowd. They are a group of guys,
Speaker 2: all powerful, important, one whom I really like and admire.
Speaker 2: I'd like to think of him as a business friend.
Speaker 2: He's tall, fit, good looking, smart. We start to shoot
Speaker 2: the breeze and I look down at his shoes. Now,
Speaker 2: I'm a believer that after you look at someone in
Speaker 2: their eyes, you know everything. Are they having a good night,
Speaker 2: are they happy to see you? Are they glad to
Speaker 2: be there? And then look down at their shoes. I
Speaker 2: believe shoes say more about a person than anything else.
Speaker 2: Shoes are the window to your soul. Told you I'm
Speaker 2: a clever guy, Anyway, I look down and this guy
Speaker 2: is I admire, is wearing those shoes, those Swede shoes
Speaker 2: with the white soles. I hate them. They're a disconnect.
Speaker 2: The white soul is an eye sore. Worst. This guy
Speaker 2: is wearing them with a suit, and I can't help myself.
Speaker 2: And I look at him and say, hey, are you
Speaker 2: a sheep? You don't know what I was talking about.
Speaker 2: He didn't get I said, you a freaking sheep? Again,
Speaker 2: what are you talking about, monk? I told them he
Speaker 2: was a sheep wearing those shoes. Everybody in America is
Speaker 2: wearing those shoes, the ugliest could be. They bother me
Speaker 2: because that white soul stands out. It's annoying me. I
Speaker 2: know you hate them, Jesse.
Speaker 3: I despise them. I despise them. I don't think they
Speaker 3: look good with jeans. I don't think that they look
Speaker 3: good with a suit. And the fact that they become
Speaker 3: so popular, so popular, is.
Speaker 2: Very very concerning.
Speaker 3: That is a very bad fashion epidemic going on.
Speaker 2: Oh good word, your brother's doing it. And I give
Speaker 2: him crap all the time.
Speaker 3: I've said before, Jared's the best dressed guy I've ever met.
Speaker 3: And the fact that he has advanced into that kind
Speaker 3: of shoes. It feels like something that he would never wear,
Speaker 3: but he likes.
Speaker 2: Them worse when you wear them with a suit, It's like,
Speaker 2: I don't know, I think people are making fun of
Speaker 2: each other anyway, it make matters worse. I keep piling
Speaker 2: on and I say, you look like a refugee from Poland,
Speaker 2: with all due respect for Poland, what happened to you?
Speaker 2: You sheep? You follow up? How can you wear those shoes?
Speaker 2: Let alone with his suit? Now, looking back, I don't
Speaker 2: think he appreciated my commentary when I thought about it afterward.
Speaker 3: What would make you think that? Yeah, because someone's like,
Speaker 3: oh Mark.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well we saw him at a golf tournament and
Speaker 2: he wasn't his friendly self. So hey guy, if you're
Speaker 2: listening tonight, allow me to reboot. I thought I was funny.
Speaker 2: I didn't mean to embarrass you. If I did, I'm
Speaker 2: truly sorry. But it's a terrible look and never mind.
Speaker 2: Then there was another example with one of my closest friends,
Speaker 2: who I still have as a close friend. This guy
Speaker 2: has great style. He's classic, very different from mine. He's
Speaker 2: always put together so well. His life is based on
Speaker 2: khakis v nex sweaters, woven shirts, loafers, kind of collegiate.
Speaker 2: But he's more modern and collegiate. And he shows up
Speaker 2: wearing those fabric Nike sneakers with no shape, no style,
Speaker 2: no class in blue matching his outfit. His shoes look
Speaker 2: like doufish shoes. I say nothing. Why you ask why?
Speaker 2: I didn't say anything. I was too busy commenting on
Speaker 2: his hair. Now, this guy has hair. Let alone, great
Speaker 2: salt and pepper hair. He has hair, and he buzz
Speaker 2: cutted it right to his scalp. And I looked at
Speaker 2: him when he took over his side and said, what
Speaker 2: are you crazy? What are you doing? You're gifted with
Speaker 2: hair and you shave it down to his scalp to
Speaker 2: look what current modern? No, it's not, it's insane. I'm
Speaker 2: looking at him, the guy who has hair cuts it
Speaker 2: all off. I can't believe what I was looking at.
Speaker 2: And then the shoes.
Speaker 3: Talk about the hair, I thought he looked great. You
Speaker 3: know that hairstyle might not fit you. It fit him perfectly,
Speaker 3: and he was tan. You gave him too much of
Speaker 3: a hard time about that.
Speaker 2: Once again, I'm gonna do a reboot. He didn't ask
Speaker 2: my opinion. I gave unsolicited advice. My filter was nonexistent.
Speaker 2: I thought I was funny. I have a feeling I
Speaker 2: wasn't from his perspective anyway. I was so happy to
Speaker 2: see him. Sorry, I thought I was funny. But nonetheless,
Speaker 2: the message for you guys out there, stay true to yourself.
Speaker 2: Fashion comes and goes styles forever since Saint Lauran. Yet
Speaker 2: I know Thomas Jefferson said in matters of style, swim
Speaker 2: in the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Speaker 2: But in this case, I'm gonna go with Eve Ovi Jefferson. Now, Jesse,
Speaker 2: what happened with you? And why I need to apologize.
Speaker 3: Usually when you make these comments, people brush them off,
Speaker 3: they say, oh, it's just Mark, They laugh it off.
Speaker 3: You really ticked them off. No, he wasn't angry at you,
Speaker 3: but he was insulted. He goes for the shoes, my hair,
Speaker 3: what's going on? He was upset and I rightfully, so
Speaker 3: you haven't seen the guy and how long? And this
Speaker 3: is what you do? And you're like, I'm trying to
Speaker 3: be funny. I'm funny, not that funny.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm an acquire taste, I admit, And this is
Speaker 2: how I lose more friends than I have. So I
Speaker 2: am apologizing to both those two guys tonight and particularly
Speaker 2: because tonight's show I'm gonna call reboot. We're gonna reboot
Speaker 2: a bunch of things. Now before I go, I wanted
Speaker 2: to ask you, Jesse, has Trump rebooted at all?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: Last week I played the commercial he ran. Commercial he
Speaker 2: ran was with Ronald Reagan when Ronald Reagan gave a speech,
Speaker 2: and basically the theme of the speech he was, are
Speaker 2: you better off four years later than you were four
Speaker 2: years earlier? And he was talking about the Carter administration,
Speaker 2: which is a disaster, And by Trump playing that, he
Speaker 2: basically said the Democrats, Biden Harris, We're not better off
Speaker 2: by you being our leaders. And I thought it was great,
Speaker 2: and I thought he might smooth it out and talk
Speaker 2: about important things. Has he or has he not?
Speaker 3: He's his own worst enemy. Can't get out of the way.
Speaker 3: He he has to pick these petty fights, these details
Speaker 3: that just don't matter. He's focusing on the wrong things.
Speaker 3: With Kamala Harrison, Tim Wallas, I will tell you somebody
Speaker 3: on News Nation, the network I'm a part of, had
Speaker 3: a really good comment. The comment was that if you
Speaker 3: put policy versus policy, Donald Trump wins. The American people
Speaker 3: will probably vote for him. If you do a personality contest,
Speaker 3: which is what this has been focused on. Donald Trump
Speaker 3: loses and he doesn't realize it or he doesn't care,
Speaker 3: and I think that's his own worst enemy. And I'm
Speaker 3: sure people try to tell him this, but he just
Speaker 3: doesn't listen and he can't be controlled, and if he
Speaker 3: loses the election, it will be his own fault.
Speaker 2: Well, it's interesting you say that because you weren't on
Speaker 2: the show last week, and I said exactly what you said.
Speaker 2: It's a popularity contest right now. And I said to them,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm in favor of Trump if you put
Speaker 2: policies together. His policies made a lot of sense and
Speaker 2: made the country great again. Been Democratic Party what they've
Speaker 2: done the last four years. I don't agree with the
Speaker 2: policy the too hard left, and Kamala Harris has to
Speaker 2: accept some of the responsibility at least with the border,
Speaker 2: if nothing else. She was there, she was always supporting Biden,
Speaker 2: never admitting he had a problem until now and then
Speaker 2: they did a coup on him. But the bottom line
Speaker 2: is policy to policy, and I agreed with you and
Speaker 2: that's what I said.
Speaker 3: Look, I think the debate is going to be very
Speaker 3: very important.
Speaker 2: That debate.
Speaker 3: As much as the debate between Biden and Trump shook
Speaker 3: up the entire political world, there is a chance this
Speaker 3: one could do the same thing. It'll be interesting to
Speaker 3: see how Donald Trump attacks Kamala Harris. She's not Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 3: It's a little bit of a different target. He's in
Speaker 3: a different position. And how she defends herself somebody who's
Speaker 3: not great off the cuff. That's going to be a
Speaker 3: challenge for her. But I think that's going to say
Speaker 3: a lot. I will tell you. I have to say,
Speaker 3: I was talking about this too the other day. You
Speaker 3: talked about the coup. Don't you find it kind of
Speaker 3: rich that President Biden said, nothing's going to keep me
Speaker 3: out of the race, nothing but some heavenly act. Is
Speaker 3: that heavenly act? Lancy Pelosi? Is she the heavenly angel
Speaker 3: that caught him out of the race. I just feel
Speaker 3: like it's such a prime example if you can't trust
Speaker 3: politicians when they say anything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I find it so sad. And the signals we
Speaker 2: send and it is a popularity contest, and on and
Speaker 2: on and on. But I'll tell you what I've said it.
Speaker 2: I'm a Trump guy for his policies. However, if Kamala
Speaker 2: Harris wins, she's my president, I will support her and
Speaker 2: I wish you the best. I want the country to
Speaker 2: be successful, but I have my doubts about where we're
Speaker 2: going as a country, and I do believe we need
Speaker 2: a major reboot. On tonight's show, which I'm calling a reboot,
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to it, always in fashion. Here's your host,
Speaker 1: Mark webber.
Speaker 2: Tonight, I want to talk about rebooting, rebooting me. I
Speaker 2: know I am self evaluating myself, and I have a
Speaker 2: lot of time on my hands. I'm joining this summer,
Speaker 2: I'm hanging out and I'm thinking about those things I
Speaker 2: do well and those things that I don't do well,
Speaker 2: mistakes I've made, How I make up for them what
Speaker 2: I do going forward. But I want to talk a
Speaker 2: little business now. I want to talk some business. And
Speaker 2: I remember a quote that resonated with me by George
Speaker 2: Bernard Shaw when he said, the only person who behaves
Speaker 2: sensibly is my tailor. He takes new measurements every time
Speaker 2: he sees me. All the rest go on with their
Speaker 2: old managements. It's interesting to remeasure yourself, to think about
Speaker 2: who you are, what you're doing, et cetera. I constantly
Speaker 2: remeasure myself the good, the bad, and the ugly. While
Speaker 2: I say I'm an acquired taste that I know those
Speaker 2: things that people might not like about me, I do
Speaker 2: them with a very measured point of view. It's not
Speaker 2: a surprise how I behave and may be a surprise
Speaker 2: to others, but I do look very closely what I do.
Speaker 2: Then I reboot and reinvent me. Now I've been, like
Speaker 2: many of you, a waster of time. My time and
Speaker 2: the people who are surrounded with me, the people I
Speaker 2: work with. When I was a boss, I figured I'm
Speaker 2: the boss, they had to deal with my time schedule.
Speaker 2: But the truth is the problem with the people that
Speaker 2: work for you, in this case me, they have work
Speaker 2: to do. They have to get the job done. Their
Speaker 2: time is incredibly valuable. While I'm dealing with strategicy, coming
Speaker 2: up with ideas, a strategic vision, they're the ones who
Speaker 2: have to do the work and wasting their time is
Speaker 2: a sin, and I thought about it. I knew I
Speaker 2: had a change. And while I'll say my tailor wasn't
Speaker 2: the smartest person I ever met, I too had something
Speaker 2: in someone to learn and admire about time management. My
Speaker 2: curiosity led me to an epiphany. I learned about time
Speaker 2: management drum roll from old people. My son's pediatrician. They
Speaker 2: had the best organization for efficiency and management of time.
Speaker 2: Do you remember that your doctor's office, Jesse, when you're
Speaker 2: a young guy A little bit?
Speaker 3: I remember there's a lot of rooms. They were running
Speaker 3: from room to room. They knew where everything was. I
Speaker 3: don't remember it that well.
Speaker 2: You probably do, Ah, You're close to what I want
Speaker 2: to cover. See. I never realized how busy and how
Speaker 2: chaotic a doctor's office was for infants and small children.
Speaker 2: Never realized how crazy it could be crying, screaming, the
Speaker 2: TV blasting, a playroom buzzing with parents cradling soothing and
Speaker 2: encourage their kids to be patient, made them feel comfortable,
Speaker 2: not worried that they're in the doctor's office, and all
Speaker 2: the while hundred of patients moving through this process. And
Speaker 2: I watched and learned the office employed five people, a receptionist,
Speaker 2: and four nurses greeting, attending, and sisting. There were ten doors,
Speaker 2: You're right, Jessee. Ten doors, some closed, some open. But
Speaker 2: the brilliance was in the details. Each door had a
Speaker 2: slot for and with an envelope, and each envelope had
Speaker 2: the baby's health records and a note indicating why they
Speaker 2: were there seeing the doctor that day. So when the
Speaker 2: doctor would go to the door, he'd simply take the envelope,
Speaker 2: take a quick peek. See who he's dealing with, See
Speaker 2: what the reason was. He's a doctor, he knows what
Speaker 2: to deal with. It didn't matter who it was, it
Speaker 2: was the chart that mattered. Jordan has a sore throat.
Speaker 2: Door one close, Jordan inside, he walks in, seese Jordan.
Speaker 2: Door two, Richie needs a flu shot. Door opens and
Speaker 2: nurses administrating it. The rest were closed envelopen place. I
Speaker 2: watched the doctor go door to door and eyeball the envelopes,
Speaker 2: read the issue, knock on the door, walk in. He's ready,
Speaker 2: no waste of time. He's prepared to see Jennifer and
Speaker 2: the other one hundred and fifty children will walk through
Speaker 2: that office that day. And as I said, I saw,
Speaker 2: I studied, I learned, and I conquered the art of
Speaker 2: business meetings. After that example, I realized how important was
Speaker 2: to be brief for meeting, how to be set for meeting,
Speaker 2: how my assistant would play an important role. My assistant
Speaker 2: had complete control of my calendar, which I would look
Speaker 2: at numerous times a day, just in case there were
Speaker 2: new developments of something unforeseen or I knew something that
Speaker 2: she didn't. But we were a team. She knew what
Speaker 2: we needed to get done. And then again in my
Speaker 2: calendar there was a notation like the pediatrician who had
Speaker 2: a notation weekly briefing. Division president, Executive VP of Marketing,
Speaker 2: AD spend for the Yankees, Executive VP Global Product Curement
Speaker 2: indicating new sourcing in China, Senior VP Sales Bloomingdale's wants
Speaker 2: to cancel an order. Senior VP Human Resources staffing additional
Speaker 2: people required. I knew why we were meeting. My doors,
Speaker 2: the openness, the madness begins fifteen meetings that day, spending
Speaker 2: ten minutes to an hour, never ever more than an hour.
Speaker 2: I will tell you this, If you need more than
Speaker 2: an hour, then you're you're not prepared, you have the
Speaker 2: wrong people, or you yourself are pretty dumb. You don't
Speaker 2: need any meetings beyond an hour now, there never fails.
Speaker 2: There are plenty of surprises. There's no prep. I'm there.
Speaker 2: My style is to under extand exactly the role I'm playing.
Speaker 2: Am I going to need to make a decision? Is
Speaker 2: someone there to brief me? Do they need my sign
Speaker 2: of Are they there to get my opinion or a
Speaker 2: position on an issue? My style was cut to the chase.
Speaker 2: I'd walk into the meeting. I've already looked at my calendar,
Speaker 2: so I know exactly why I'm there, and I would say,
Speaker 2: what's this meeting about? Am I here to buy or sell?
Speaker 2: What do I need to see? What are you helping
Speaker 2: to accomplish? And they tell me really quickly, like I
Speaker 2: just said, Bloomingdale's is canceling an order? What do you
Speaker 2: want to do about it? We need to change our
Speaker 2: sourcing in China? What do you want to do about
Speaker 2: I'm going to brief you. I'm going to tell you
Speaker 2: what this issues is. So I walk in, I know
Speaker 2: what I'm doing, I greet them, I know what my
Speaker 2: position is, and I'll tell you what this is also interesting.
Speaker 2: I don't know about the rest of you. My memory
Speaker 2: is incredible. If I hear it. I don't like to read.
Speaker 2: I like to hear. Now do I read all the time?
Speaker 2: I never stop reading. I never go into a meeting
Speaker 2: with a pen. I never take notes because it forces
Speaker 2: me to remember and fra keeps me young. I listen intently,
Speaker 2: I ask questions. I expect the people in the room
Speaker 2: to be expert at this subject matter. I also expect
Speaker 2: to know not quite as much as them when the
Speaker 2: meeting ends, but close. If I ask the right questions,
Speaker 2: I pay attention. At the end of the meeting, I'm
Speaker 2: going to know an awful lot. And at the end
Speaker 2: of the meeting, what do we do? You need to
Speaker 2: summarize what we agreed on, what are the next steps,
Speaker 2: and what is the timetable? And that all came from
Speaker 2: me watching the pediatrician's office. Jesse, you have fifteen different
Speaker 2: assignments on any given day. How do you manage it?
Speaker 3: And I don't have an assistant managing my calendar.
Speaker 2: It's tough.
Speaker 3: It's tough. I wake up thirty minutes to an hour
Speaker 3: earlier every day just to plan everything that I have
Speaker 3: going on, and I have to prioritize what needs to
Speaker 3: get done right now? What can I work on? That
Speaker 3: maybe I can get it ahead of for the next day,
Speaker 3: and what do I have to think about for the
Speaker 3: following week. There's so many things at once. I mean
Speaker 3: every day I'm hosting four shows. I do appearances at
Speaker 3: night that I have to prep for, and everything takes preparation.
Speaker 3: I never do anything off the cuff. I have to
Speaker 3: be prepared for everything in preparation takes time. There's not
Speaker 3: enough hours in the day.
Speaker 2: If you're doing serious radio, what kind of prep work
Speaker 2: do you to get ready for that?
Speaker 3: Okay, I'll give you an example. You know how Donald
Speaker 3: Trump the other day said that he was preparing to
Speaker 3: sue the Department of Justice. Did you see that?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, flmar A Lago.
Speaker 3: Right, So I have to look up everything possible regarding
Speaker 3: what do you do about suing the government of the
Speaker 3: United States, What are the political ramifications of this, what
Speaker 3: would a potential lawsuit look like, what is the success
Speaker 3: of it? And I have to have all of these
Speaker 3: legal and political questions wrapped up, including why he's doing it,
Speaker 3: the timeline of.
Speaker 2: It, what's the give and take with you and the producers.
Speaker 3: I picked the topic or they submit a topic, and
Speaker 3: then we agree and it's all me. It's either I
Speaker 3: want a guest or I don't want a guest. It's
Speaker 3: literally I'm in the driver's seat and they don't give
Speaker 3: me a script. I write my own script. I tell
Speaker 3: them to help find some clips that might be useful,
Speaker 3: and that's it. It's all on me. You think I
Speaker 3: could just do that in fifteen minutes. It takes about
Speaker 3: an hour and a half to prepare for right.
Speaker 2: I get it. I get it. One to ten. How
Speaker 2: good are you at planning?
Speaker 3: I think I'm a ten. I'm very good at planning. Really,
Speaker 3: I'm not great at time management, though, in the sense
Speaker 3: that I have too much going on. Do I focus? Do?
Speaker 3: Sometimes certain things get a little more at tension than
Speaker 3: other things. Yes, I don't know how to dedicated.
Speaker 2: Well, I got news for you. You said what General
Speaker 2: Eisenhower said when he dealt with priorities and when he
Speaker 2: dealt with time management, he said, you deal with the
Speaker 2: things that must get then first. That's what you said.
Speaker 2: That's true. You know, before I wrap up this thing
Speaker 2: on meetings, when you were meetings, you're on the hot spot,
Speaker 2: particularly in my case when you're the boss. I was
Speaker 2: CEO of president whatever A case may be, you have
Speaker 2: to be ready to go. The first thing you do
Speaker 2: is you have to look at who you're meeting with.
Speaker 2: Are the entrepreneurs, creative thinkers outside the box that are
Speaker 2: you going to have to have your best game? Or
Speaker 2: the bureaucrats they just know what the rules are and
Speaker 2: they'll follow. Are you dealing with domestic or global issues?
Speaker 2: Sometimes does are very different things. What you need to
Speaker 2: do for Macy's and New York make very different from
Speaker 2: what you do for Harold's in London. Whoever's sitting across
Speaker 2: the desk from you or the conference table, you have
Speaker 2: to size them up. Do they have a presence, Do
Speaker 2: they command attention? Do they demand respect? Are they players
Speaker 2: or lightweight? You have to do all these things that
Speaker 2: judge