Brown Motion

You hear this expression a lot in corporations.  He or she is just not cutting it.  It is a typical symptom of the corporation working with someone who has lost their edge. An edge that would have given said business an edge when it comes to their competition. Well in this case I refer to the dilemma faced by the world's largest manufacturer of shaving blades.  The name that has become synonymous with the function it provides Gillette is running out of ideas to sell more blades.  Hairy problem that. You see the business that was founded at the turn of the 20th century (pretty much when Daimler was inventing the Benz) by a fella called Gillette, has now found itself scraping the top of the their collective heads.  This because much like Daimler the Gillette company, part of the much larger entity named for Messrs. Proctor and Gamble itself has reached revenues similar to what Daimler has selling cars. The problem stems not because there are less hirsute...