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Idealized Futures and Team Building Cover Stories

Mike Cardus

Following each team sharing, we had a great discussion about the meeting goals, and used the ‘Cover Stories’ as a reference point for the planning and development of future goals. We broke into two groups and each had a ‘Cover Story’ template a bunch of markers and 30 minutes. What do you think?

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Brand Exposure

N2Growth Blog

As I stated above, having an underexposed brand, or what I like to refer to as having a brand in stealth mode, means that you really don’t have much of a brand. It is simply a more intelligent approach to consistently manage brand exposure than it is to let your brand run wild and then attempt to triage overexposure.

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Your New Hit Product Might Be Underpriced

Harvard Business Review

Between 65% and 75% miss their revenue or profit goals, depending on whose research you look at. Some products are truly innovative but stay walled up too long in R&D and then are released to market when they are no longer unique. That’s a recipe for missing out on an innovation with huge profit potential.

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Whole Foods’ Misguided Play for Millennials

Harvard Business Review

According to Whole Foods co-CEO Walter Robb, these future stores will feature “modern, streamlined design, innovative technology, and a curated selection” of lower-priced organic and natural foods. The news that Whole Foods will open a separate chain of stores designed to appeal to millennials stopped me mid-aisle.

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Healthy Habits Of Successful Leaders – An Expert Roundup

Joseph Lalonde

I have found that with self-awareness comes clarity about my goals and vision for my life. They can focus on the goals they have set before themselves and not get distracted by the noise of the world. The goal of successful leaders is to make a few fundamental decisions which simplify thousands of future decisions.

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HPU: A Case Study in the Extraordinary

Mark Sanborn

Always open to new challenges, he seized the opportunity to lead a university with facilities that were a bit long in the tooth and that lacked any signs of innovating in the future. . He made it a goal to provide life preparation for students to take their place in society after graduation. As Roger Clodfelter, Senior V.P.

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The Big Picture of Business: The Realities of Networking

Strategy Driven

Try to enlighten them, and they convert it all back to their old frame of reference, with questions like “Do you still talk to X?” They want you to be there for them and those whom they refer to you. X doesn’t really value your time or would have asked in advance if you could be periodically referred.