Reboot

is inspirational. He's gone from clerk to CEO twice. Mark is classic proof that the American dream is alive and well, here's your host of Always in Fashion, Mark Weber.

should haves. What's done is done. You could learn from what you did right or you learn from what you did wrong. In life and business, we make choices. Some things would be nice to do, others you should do, and then there are things you must do. Example, in life, you decide to play pickaball, be nice to buy those new pickuball sneakers you saw, or I must buy them to match my outfit or protect my ankles. Those are choices. That's a silly example because you don't have to do

any of them. Well, you could do all of them. You don't need an excuse. In business, it would be nice to add dollars to my marketing budget, make me feel like I'm doing the right thing. Or should I add dollars to my advertising budget? Or I must add advertising dollars because I'm launching a new product and I must get the message out there. Reminds me of one of my favorite By the way, maybe some of you've heard it. Building a brand without advertising is like kissing

a girl in the dark. You know what you're doing, but nobody else does. Back on point, you don't get to do doovers. Once it's done, it's done. You can take corrective actions, even make apologies for your mistakes, or most importantly, you get to learn and improve. It's a reboot, you reset yourself. I've been thinking about myself. Lots of time on my hands, lots of walking, playing at summer. I'm enjoying and reflecting. I like being Mark Weber, but it doesn't take away from the fact that I know

I'm an acquired taste. I'm selective, reclusive, I have issues with humans that often leads me to be short on patience, and I live life without a filter. I say what I want, when I want, how I want. Worst of all, I think i'm funny or even clever, and I know whenever I think I'm funny, I'm getting into trouble. And I've had lots of trouble these last few weeks. I'm a master of unsolicited advice, telling people what I think about the way they look, the way they dress, the

way they do things without them asking me. Who's Mark Weber? The show asked up front. Like everyone, I have many sides, father, business and friend to a few curious scholarly, I'm an observer and a commentator. All told, this filterless guy, this funny guy, unfortunately, may have offended some people inadvertently, and tonight I'm rebooting you know what. Before I get started, let me bring in someone who I have not inadvertently said anything wrong about, at least I don't think my lawyer,

my co host, and my son, Jesse Weber. Hey, Jesse, how you you're right? You're right.

are they happy to see you? Are they glad to be there? And then look down at their shoes. I believe shoes say more about a person than anything else. Shoes are the window to your soul. Told you I'm a clever guy, Anyway, I look down and this guy is I admire, is wearing those shoes, those Swede shoes with the white soles. I hate them. They're a disconnect. The white soul is an eye sore. Worst. This guy is wearing them with a suit, and I can't help myself. And I look at him and say, hey, are you

a sheep? You don't know what I was talking about. He didn't get I said, you a freaking sheep? Again, what are you talking about, monk? I told them he was a sheep wearing those shoes. Everybody in America is wearing those shoes, the ugliest could be. They bother me because that white soul stands out. It's annoying me. I know you hate them, Jesse.

always put together so well. His life is based on khakis v nex sweaters, woven shirts, loafers, kind of collegiate. But he's more modern and collegiate. And he shows up wearing those fabric Nike sneakers with no shape, no style, no class in blue matching his outfit. His shoes look like doufish shoes. I say nothing. Why you ask why? I didn't say anything. I was too busy commenting on his hair. Now, this guy has hair. Let alone, great salt and pepper hair. He has hair, and he buzz

cutted it right to his scalp. And I looked at him when he took over his side and said, what are you crazy? What are you doing? You're gifted with hair and you shave it down to his scalp to look what current modern? No, it's not, it's insane. I'm looking at him, the guy who has hair cuts it all off. I can't believe what I was looking at. And then the shoes.

in the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock. But in this case, I'm gonna go with Eve Ovi Jefferson. Now, Jesse, what happened with you? And why I need to apologize.

about important things. Has he or has he not?

which is what this has been focused on. Donald Trump loses and he doesn't realize it or he doesn't care, and I think that's his own worst enemy. And I'm sure people try to tell him this, but he just doesn't listen and he can't be controlled, and if he loses the election, it will be his own fault.

if nothing else. She was there, she was always supporting Biden, never admitting he had a problem until now and then they did a coup on him. But the bottom line is policy to policy, and I agreed with you and that's what I said.

I was talking about this too the other day. You talked about the coup. Don't you find it kind of rich that President Biden said, nothing's going to keep me out of the race, nothing but some heavenly act. Is that heavenly act? Lancy Pelosi? Is she the heavenly angel that caught him out of the race. I just feel like it's such a prime example if you can't trust politicians when they say anything.

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little business now. I want to talk some business. And I remember a quote that resonated with me by George Bernard Shaw when he said, the only person who behaves sensibly is my tailor. He takes new measurements every time he sees me. All the rest go on with their old managements. It's interesting to remeasure yourself, to think about who you are, what you're doing, et cetera. I constantly

remeasure myself the good, the bad, and the ugly. While I say I'm an acquired taste that I know those things that people might not like about me, I do them with a very measured point of view. It's not a surprise how I behave and may be a surprise to others, but I do look very closely what I do. Then I reboot and reinvent me. Now I've been, like many of you, a waster of time. My time and the people who are surrounded with me, the people I

work with. When I was a boss, I figured I'm the boss, they had to deal with my time schedule. But the truth is the problem with the people that work for you, in this case me, they have work to do. They have to get the job done. Their time is incredibly valuable. While I'm dealing with strategicy, coming up with ideas, a strategic vision, they're the ones who have to do the work and wasting their time is a sin, and I thought about it. I knew I

had a change. And while I'll say my tailor wasn't the smartest person I ever met, I too had something in someone to learn and admire about time management. My curiosity led me to an epiphany. I learned about time management drum roll from old people. My son's pediatrician. They had the best organization for efficiency and management of time. Do you remember that your doctor's office, Jesse, when you're a young guy A little bit?

the while hundred of patients moving through this process. And I watched and learned the office employed five people, a receptionist, and four nurses greeting, attending, and sisting. There were ten doors, You're right, Jessee. Ten doors, some closed, some open. But the brilliance was in the details. Each door had a slot for and with an envelope, and each envelope had the baby's health records and a note indicating why they

were there seeing the doctor that day. So when the doctor would go to the door, he'd simply take the envelope, take a quick peek. See who he's dealing with, See what the reason was. He's a doctor, he knows what to deal with. It didn't matter who it was, it was the chart that mattered. Jordan has a sore throat. Door one close, Jordan inside, he walks in, seese Jordan. Door two, Richie needs a flu shot. Door opens and

nurses administrating it. The rest were closed envelopen place. I watched the doctor go door to door and eyeball the envelopes, read the issue, knock on the door, walk in. He's ready, no waste of time. He's prepared to see Jennifer and the other one hundred and fifty children will walk through that office that day. And as I said, I saw, I studied, I learned, and I conquered the art of

business meetings. After that example, I realized how important was to be brief for meeting, how to be set for meeting, how my assistant would play an important role. My assistant had complete control of my calendar, which I would look at numerous times a day, just in case there were new developments of something unforeseen or I knew something that she didn't. But we were a team. She knew what we needed to get done. And then again in my calendar there was a notation like the pediatrician who had

a notation weekly briefing. Division president, Executive VP of Marketing, AD spend for the Yankees, Executive VP Global Product Curement indicating new sourcing in China, Senior VP Sales Bloomingdale's wants to cancel an order. Senior VP Human Resources staffing additional people required. I knew why we were meeting. My doors, the openness, the madness begins fifteen meetings that day, spending ten minutes to an hour, never ever more than an hour.

I will tell you this, If you need more than an hour, then you're you're not prepared, you have the wrong people, or you yourself are pretty dumb. You don't need any meetings beyond an hour now, there never fails. There are plenty of surprises. There's no prep. I'm there. My style is to under extand exactly the role I'm playing. Am I going to need to make a decision? Is someone there to brief me? Do they need my sign of Are they there to get my opinion or a

position on an issue? My style was cut to the chase. I'd walk into the meeting. I've already looked at my calendar, so I know exactly why I'm there, and I would say, what's this meeting about? Am I here to buy or sell? What do I need to see? What are you helping to accomplish? And they tell me really quickly, like I just said, Bloomingdale's is canceling an order? What do you want to do about it? We need to change our sourcing in China? What do you want to do about

I'm going to brief you. I'm going to tell you what this issues is. So I walk in, I know what I'm doing, I greet them, I know what my position is, and I'll tell you what this is also interesting. I don't know about the rest of you. My memory is incredible. If I hear it. I don't like to read. I like to hear. Now do I read all the time? I never stop reading. I never go into a meeting with a pen. I never take notes because it forces me to remember and fra keeps me young. I listen intently,

I ask questions. I expect the people in the room to be expert at this subject matter. I also expect to know not quite as much as them when the meeting ends, but close. If I ask the right questions, I pay attention. At the end of the meeting, I'm going to know an awful lot. And at the end of the meeting, what do we do? You need to summarize what we agreed on, what are the next steps, and what is the timetable? And that all came from

me watching the pediatrician's office. Jesse, you have fifteen different assignments on any given day. How do you manage it?

I never do anything off the cuff. I have to be prepared for everything in preparation takes time. There's not enough hours in the day.

to be ready to go. The first thing you do is you have to look at who you're meeting with. Are the entrepreneurs, creative thinkers outside the box that are you going to have to have your best game? Or the bureaucrats they just know what the rules are and they'll follow. Are you dealing with domestic or global issues? Sometimes does are very different things. What you need to do for Macy's and New York make very different from

what you do for Harold's in London. Whoever's sitting across the desk from you or the conference table, you have to size them up. Do they have a presence, Do they command attention? Do they demand respect? Are they players or lightweight? You have to do all these things that judge