"Nicole Miller"   NJN / NJN

Bud: "The buyer half the time has no idea who her customer is because department stores deal in traffic. Where a small store deals in trade. She knows her customer. She knows Alice, she knows Mary, she knows Sally, she knows Joan and she buys for them. And that's a business.

I did an organizational chart, but it's circular. It's not top to bottom -- it is a circular chart because we learn from everybody in the business and they contribute. And it is not that I -- I am the CEO and what I say goes – I don't do that. I don't tell it, I sell it. And if I can't sell it – maybe it's not such a good idea. Because if I believe that I have only good ideas, then I am in big trouble."

Not only is their ORG-chart circular, their thinking is inclusively circular.

As designers for women, one of the key issues for all women is cancer. Nicole Miller designs for women fighting cancer and they also take on the battle against cancer at its highest level. What they have done with the National Football League is, in its own special way, every bit as miraculous as the work of Mother Theresa.

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