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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva; color: #050505; font-size: 10pt;"><em><br></em>We have posted and expanded Martin Canard's story below the President’s Letter to the right, but at this time our team is most interested in hearing your favorites that have NOT yet appeared, either in The Agenda or in our BizSpeak! Book. As such, we are requesting that you forward to us any and all of your selections.<br></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #660000;"><strong><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva; font-size: 10pt;">"Puzzle Spider"</span></strong></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffffcc;"><strong> March</strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></strong></span></span><span style="color: #ffffff; font-size: 13pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">2011 </span></strong></span></div>
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<div><strong><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva; color: #7a2841; font-size: 14pt;">“Asking the </span></strong></div>
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<div><span style="color: #150cf2;"><em><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva; font-size: 9pt;">By Richard Storey, TRG Affiliate </span></em></span></div>
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<div><span style="color: #660000;"><em><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva; font-size: 10pt;">The opposite of “make no assumption” is “ask and ask and when you think you have the answer ask some more...” If this offends your clients (both internal and external) then they are the wrong clients...</span></em></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva; font-size: 10pt;">These notions may sound glib, but the best planning follows a set of simple related premises.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Ask Questions!</span> <ol>
<li><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva; font-size: 10pt;">The subject must be of consequence to you.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva; font-size: 10pt;">The “Plan Owners” must be willing to find answers that they have been either unable or unwilling to address to this point.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva; font-size: 10pt;">The questions selected and the order in which they are asked will at least influence and often determine the outcome.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Because there are no preset questions, the act of defining the questions at the start is of top priority.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva; font-size: 10pt;">There are a set of overarching principles in establishing the questions, these Include: <br></span>
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<li><span style="color: #660000; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva;">Why is "it" the way "it" is now? (With "it" being the basic conditions of business that are the drivers of planning)</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva;"> </span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #660000; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva;">Could “it” be something else, other than “it” appears on the surface? <br></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva;">What are we missing?</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva;"> </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva;">What else is out there that is similar?</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva;"> <br></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva; color: #660000; font-size: 9pt;">What else is out there that is totally different BUT just might be applied?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva; color: #660000; font-size: 9pt;">Who should be helping us to ask the questions, define options for the answers, and consider the value of the options as they emerge? </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva; font-size: 10pt;"> <br></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva; font-size: 10pt;">What will it take to get as many of US as possible to INDEPENDENTLY say an unbounded set of questions first… and then answers RIGHT NOW!</span></li>
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<div><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Here is a modest challenge… there exists within your group’s life a tangible but unasked question that has lingered for a time; how to replicate the success of Pennsylvania in Ohio… determining if it is time to improve your name/logo, or whether to migrate your website message to wrap around Facebook. Pick one and write “it” down. Now that you’ve got “it,” re-read the above.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #0000ff; font-size: 10pt;"><em>Guest Predictions is a regular feature in which we ask leaders in a number of professions questions that affect us all.</em></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #84333d;"><strong>Dan Clemens, </strong></span><span class="regis"> <br></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="color: #741a2a;"><em><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Dan Clemens is a media, communications and content consultant with expertise derived from more than two decades as a journalist for The Baltimore Sun. His abilities include writing, editing, design, content development and management, messaging and strategic communications, media relations, and social media.</span></em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #741a2a;"><em><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Over the past two years, Dan has served as a consultant and subject matter expert for clients in diverse industries, including government contracting, higher education, health care, and non-profits. </span></em></span>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; color: #851e20; font-size: 10pt;"><strong><span style="color: #000000;">A: </span></strong></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Technological change has remade the news and communications industries. The earlier wave included advances such as desktop publishing for newspapers and video technology for TV news. In more recent years, the Internet and multiple new distribution channels provided new and faster ways to deliver information. Now, delivery of content from almost anywhere in the world can be instantaneous and continuous.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #84333d;"><strong>Q: What changes have been the most troubling to you?</strong></span><strong><br></strong> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #660000;"><strong><span style="color: #000000;">A: </span></strong></span>The increasing instantaneousness and nonstop flow of information has spawned a migration away from comprehensive, in-depth news and information. The growing emphasis on commentary, in greater amount and often lesser insight, and the fixation on pop culture and entertainment news has displaced a significant portion of coverage of important topics that affect citizens’ lives.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #660000;"><strong><span style="color: #000000;">A: </span></strong></span><span style="color: #660000;"> </span>With globalization, the world shrinks and once-far-flung places become areas of interest, creating demand for news and information about new locales. Understanding the behavior, habits and preferences of information consumers in other parts of the world becomes increasingly important, particularly for marketers seeking to do business abroad through news electronic distribution channels.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; color: #84333d; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Q: What significant challenges might be anticipated in your professional area in the next few years? </strong></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #851e20;"><strong><span style="color: #000000;">A: </span></strong></span>We are living in a Golden Age of Information, an era of content in unprecedented abundance, diversity and availability through multiple channels. A key question: How does my message avoid getting drowned in the torrent of content?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #84333d;"><strong>Q: What are the greatest challenges confronting young professionals in Western culture today?</strong><strong> </strong></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 12pt; color: #752e31;"><strong>"THE ONLY CONSTANT IS CHANGE"</strong></span></div>
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<div><em><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: #7d0715;">While not embracing constant chaos as a way of doing business, the reality that deliberate and well considered change is the centerpiece of progressive planning brings us to the next phase in the life of The Agenda Newsletter.</span></em></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;"> Starting next month and for the foreseeable future, ALL BizSpeaks will be provided by you, our readers. Give us your best shot and Martin Canard, our humor editor will do what he can to put them ALL in…</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Well… that might get tough… we have already been given 15… ok… please give us the most unusual and descriptive.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">In addition we are soliciting sequences of five global questions related in some way to business, and at a date not yet designated we will start our next interview sequence.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">We are also soliciting your ideas of how to become even MORE interactive, while preserving the blend of straight-forward news, commentary and humor each month.</span></div>
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<div><em><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">On to the next adventure!</span></em></div>
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<div> <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; color: #800e20; font-size: 10pt;"><em>HERE IS A SPECIAL BIZSPEAK BUZZ RESULTING FROM MARTIN CANARD’S LESS THAN STERLING SONG AND DANCE AT THE BIG CHEESE POW W</em><em>O</em><em>W</em>!</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Unfortunately, from the “GET GO” Martin ran “full tilt” into a “stonewall.” </span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">His “overall positioning” took him on a “really bad bounce.”</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">He acted as a “lightening rod” for all the EVPs.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">He was falsely suspected of “cooking the numbers,” when and actually it was Gregory who had his “hand in the cookie jar!”</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">As a result, Martin was “slow-rolled” “flat as a pancake.”</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">But just when it looked like Martin would never be able to “pull out of the death spiral,”</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">He said the “magic ROI words” and miraculously...</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Because even “a dead cat will bounce if it is thrown FROM HIGH enough...”</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">…he did!</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">So here he is...</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">“On his feet...”</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">“Off the street…”</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">And about as “BIG TIME COMPLETE"....as our Martin can ever be.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Hoozah!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><em><a style="color: #2820de;" title="Click here" rel="Click here" href="http://www.regisgroup.com/ourPress/publications.shtml">Click here</a> <span style="color: #3300ff;">to check out the BizSpeak book!</span></em></span>
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