Steve Dennis

When you get to the fork in the road take it.

Choose remarkable or risk irrelevance.

Retail's Great Bifurcation (Redux) The content below originally appeared on my previous blog site almost exactly 10 years ago. Then, in early 2018, my friends at Deloitte released a study that put a lot more data and analysis behind my underlying thesis.

"Is Macy’s Turnaround Gaining Traction?" My latest via Forbes.

Is Macy’s Turnaround Gaining Traction or More of a Dead Cat Bounce? After Macy's beats on quarterly earnings the question is whether there are signs of a true turnaround or merely proof of low expectations.

Facing a tough retail landscape? It's time to break through and aim for remarkable!
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Remarkable Insights from Steve Dennis Email from Feeling Stuck? Learn How to Break through and Take Action Today. Greetings! Since I'm a no BS kind of guy, I'll be speak plainly: It's been a pretty cruel summer. I won't dwell on the devas

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Are You Following the Remarkable Retail Podcast? Email from SageBerry Consulting, LLC Don't Miss Our New Summer Series 'Hello Steve, Season 10 of the award-winning Remarkable Retail podcast just wrapped up and it's probably our best one yet. If you

Thanks to Thinkers360 for naming me a Top 5 Global Retail Thought Leader and Influencer for another year. And congratulations to all my fellow colleagues who made the list.

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Don't miss my "10 Tantalizing Tips for Tumultuous Times" on this week's edition of the award-winning, 5-star rated Remarkable Retail podcast.

Give it a listen and let me what your favorites are.

1. Make a radical commitment to reality and transparency
2. Willingly embrace uncertainty
3. ABT: Always. Be. Testing
4. Choose Your Fans, Choose Your Future (Godin)
5. Be Human-Centered, Digitally Enabled
6. Tell a better story
7. Edit to amplify
8. Perform a friction audit
9. Don’t confuse table stakes with differentiators
10. Remember cash is king.

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For organizations struggling to transform, incremental change--merely delivering a slightly better version of mediocre--is the one strategy guaranteed to fail.

Aim higher, move faster, act boldly, make the leap to remarkable.

Why Playing It Safe Is the Riskiest Strategic Choice In the current era of digital disruption, the pace of change has dramatically accelerated, leaving traditional risk management wisdom lacking. Across a variety of industries, technology-enabled disruptors have changed the rules. Many brands that moved cautiously have dramatically increased their ris...

Another day at the office. Just in Romania.

Grateful for the recognition from the folks at Thinkers 360

Top 50 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers on Innovation 2025 Here’s the Thinkers360 annual leaderboard for our top 50 global thought leaders and influencers on Innovation for 2025. Congratulations to all our influencers on Innovation who participated!     Top 50 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers on Innovation 2025 2025 Annual Ranking   Find and work...

is now in the rear-view mirror. So much great learning, many fun events, 2 book signings for and a whole lot more.

My 2024 Retail Predictions: A Reckoning.

My 2024 Retail Predictions: A Reckoning - Steve Dennis For the last several years, I've made a list of annual predictions for the retail industry, which I share here, on Forbes, and on my podcast. And then, in