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Mickey Drexler**Bias for instant action/Towering impatience with in-action**Impatient but not brutal **Relentless/Speed-of-light experimentation; more ASAP if works, drop if not**Vibrates with energy (literally)**Always on the prowl—anywhere, everywhere—for ideas**Lots of team-standing-around-making-instant-assessments-decisions—all contributing**Likes working with women more than men because F more intuitive than M**Dresses like the brand—at 66**Offense, not defense**Communicates all the time [removes fear from hearing “famous” CEO]. Everyone, including most junior, made part of the decision-making team**Listens attentively regardless of age/seniority**Obvious in his transparent respect for young employees**Trusts intuition plus fanatic about the numbers **Expects everyone to know their numbers cold from memory**Always aware of “the business case”—as well fashion-master**Aggressive pricing**MBWA/Managing By Wandering Around**Open with everyone, from youth to folks at Earnings Call**Constant customer contact/Dialogues with customer/Reacts instantly to customer feedback**Willing to act (experiment) based on one datapoint**Engages with most junior people**At 66, comfortably uses “hot” words like “Cool” “Wow”Source: The New Yorker/0920.10
Mickey Drexler/J. Crew“The Merchant: It’s All About the Eye—And the Numbers.”New Yorker profile/20 September 2010