While in my first ten-year career stop with a regional natural gas utility headquartered in Dallas, Texas, at age 24, they sent me to a marketing seminar at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, where I heard an impressive lecture by the head buyer of Macy's Department Store in NYC, at the time the largest and most profitable department store in the world. He was a 60–70 year old white-haired Jewish man who spoke for the morning session. Picture a Davi...