Back in the mid to late 90’s, I partnered with a friend to conduct Manufacturing Boot-Camps; these were the first ones ever. We brought in 10-15 entrepreneurs for a grueling 3 day training event at my friend’s sewing plant in Missouri.…
Tag: Slavery or Bravery
Why nobody reads your instructions
We all share the shame
Once upon a time, I majored in economics, specifically developmental economics aka “third world economics”. I wanted to change the world; go to work for the United Nations, the IMF or maybe the World Bank. And I did end up working for the UN but there were so many roadblocks -if they weren’t political or economic, they were social.…
100 years of magical thinking
Yet another overseas factory burns, killing workers. Have we learned nothing in the last hundred years? Considering the Shirtwaist Factory Fire (1911), all we’ve done is push tragedy farther from us -where we can conveniently forget about it, competing as it does with a new week’s news.…
Fashion mentors: free & good advice to start a clothing line
Circumstances dictate revisiting what mentoring means, and how to get good and free advice in starting your clothing line. As an aside, I thought “free” was implied in a mentoring relationship but that seems to be evolving. A lot of people market themselves as mentors but then expect you to pay for it.…