{"id":1875,"date":"2009-01-16T10:27:25","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T04:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thirdeyesight.in\/blog\/?p=211"},"modified":"2009-01-16T10:27:25","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T04:57:25","slug":"growth-in-recession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myechoproject.com\/TES\/growth-in-recession\/","title":{"rendered":"Growth in Recession"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve just spent a few (grim) days at the National Retail Federation’s conference in New York – the NRF Annual Big Show. (After all that grimness, I hope you’ll pardon my play on words in the title!)<\/p>\n

However, the key message from several conversations is that this is an ideal time for the better companies to use this opportunity to take tough decisions, and to create change that is hard to push when the business is doing well.<\/p>\n

I think that is sound advice to not just get through these recessionary times, but also to pull far ahead of the competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is an ideal time for the better companies to use this opportunity to take the tough decisions, and to create change that is hard to push when the business is doing well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[265,222,43,46,1],"tags":[336,195,496,497,476,65,124,232],"class_list":["post-1875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entrepreneurship","category-leadership","category-retail","category-strategy","category-uncategorized","tag-leadership","tag-modern-retailing","tag-national-retail-federation","tag-nrf","tag-organization","tag-retail","tag-strategy","tag-usa"],"yoast_head":"\nGrowth in Recession - Third Eyesight<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index,follow\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/myechoproject.com\/TES\/growth-in-recession\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Growth in Recession - 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