https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/05/575932533/sears-kmart-and-macys-will-close-more-stores-in-2018 What does American retail and business strategy have to offer the declining Mainline religions? First, an undifferentiated strategy of serving “everyone” is doomed to failure. Kmart, Sears and JC Penney could not create a differentiated strategy. They died.  Marshall Field had a better approach. Second, the mavens of corporate strategy offer a simple framework for addressing the … Continue reading Congregational Strategy