{"id":12303,"date":"2018-10-01T13:01:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T17:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/?p=12303"},"modified":"2022-12-07T14:59:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T19:59:09","slug":"advice-from-elliot-lifson-vice-chairman-of-peerless-clothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/2018\/10\/01\/advice-from-elliot-lifson-vice-chairman-of-peerless-clothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice from Elliot Lifson, Vice Chairman of Peerless Clothing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cThose that win the most are those that give the most\u201d
\nAdvice from Elliot Lifson, Vice Chairman of Peerless Clothing and Patron of the McGill-HEC Montreal EMBA Class of 2020<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Over a lunchtime conversation, Elliot Lifson, who will be following \u2018his\u2019 class throughout the year, shared his advice for how to get the most out of the EMBA experience, and on what he finds important in life and business. He synthesized it down to four points:<\/p>\n

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  1. Network.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. Learn from each other.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. Give to each other.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  4. Think outside the box.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Mr. Lifson considers these four points the foundation of his considerable success. He is Vice\u2010Chairman of Peerless Clothing Inc.<\/a>, a company privately owned which employs 3,000 people, who work in a modern and technologically advanced manufacturing facility in Montreal. If you buy a men\u2019s suit that\u2019s made in Canada, whether it\u2019s Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger, or many others, it\u2019s most likely made by Peerless Clothing.\u00a0 The Peerless Montreal factory is considered the world\u2019s most efficient factory, so much so that it acts as a research centre for SAP.\u00a0 How did it get that way? By thinking outside the box. While other clothing manufacturers were outsourcing, Peerless decided not to follow the trend, but instead looked at the problem differently: how could they get an edge by remaining in Canada.\u00a0 The rest, as they say, is history.<\/p>\n

    The real heart of Elliot\u2019s message, though, was the importance of giving and sharing and networking. These are key philosophies that the EMBA Program also promotes.\u00a0 Networking, in Elliot\u2019s way of thinking, is not transactional.\u00a0 It\u2019s not at all \u2018what\u2019s in it for me\u2019, but rather, \u2018what can I do for you?\u2019\u00a0 He\u2019s always looking for ways to help people, and to understand them, so that he can connect people that might be able to help each other.\u00a0 He is persuaded that sustainable success is due more to relationships than strategies. He refers to relationships at all levels: with employees, with experts, with competitors and partners.\u00a0 It\u2019s those relationships which will enable a strategy to be turned into reality.<\/p>\n

    Elliot encouraged the class to make the most of their time together, noting what a luxury it is, and how \u201ctechnology connects, but face-to-face binds\u201d.\u00a0 He underlined the importance of giving and being generous with others, noting that, \u201cthose that win the most are those that give the most\u201d, and emphasizing that \u201cseul on va plus vite, mais ensemble on va plus loin\u201d.\u00a0 The class is already looking forward to their next meeting with Mr. Lifson, so that they can network, learn, give, and think outside the box with him.<\/p>\n

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    \u201cThose that win the most are those that give the most\u201d Advice from Elliot Lifson, Vice Chairman of Peerless Clothing and Patron of the McGill-HEC Montreal EMBA Class of 2020 Over a lunchtime conversation, Elliot Lifson, who will be following \u2018his\u2019 class throughout the year, shared his advice for how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2131012,758148,4,5],"tags":[2169702,2169700,2169696,2169701,212535,183,33,2169699,1983409,2169698,2169697],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12310,"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12303\/revisions\/12310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}