If the board is asleep at the switch with respect to investments, trust me, they are not minding the store in other areas.

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This sort of gut intuition can only be discovered and experienced when brand owners are truly in touch with the IP and minding the store.

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The crisis in the credit markets has raised all sorts of questions about who was minding the store while the mortgage bubble grew out of control.

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There are clearly advantages in face-to-face contact, particularly for younger people and top-echelon executives, who may be more effective minding the store if they hang around the office.

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And then everyone asks who was minding the store.

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And all your friends and neighbors and communities are paying the price, because nobody was minding the store and making sure that these banks and these financial institutions were following basic rules of the road.

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