INSIGHTS Insights 1-4-19 By Staff Thursday, January 3, 2019 12:17 PM "[Blake Nordstrom epitomized] the Nordstrom style of management – not being afraid to test things out, not being afraid to change, making decisions to invest in the business even though it causes short-term challenges."-Neil Saunders, managing director of analysis firm GlobalData Retail and a longtime Nordstrom watcher, in an interview with the Seattle Times. Blake Nordstrom, 58, a fourth-generation member of the Nordstrom family and a leader of the department store company since the mid-1990s, died in Seattle on Wednesday.