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What Is Your Real Mission?

Spark Consulting

Organized by Joe Gerstand t and Jason Lauritsen , it provided an opportunity for 10 people who didn’t know each other to sit in a cabin outside Omaha for 2 1/2 days and think and talk deeply about the future of work. Do they say they want innovation, then automatically shoot down every new idea anyone proposes?

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From the Kids’ Table to the Adults’ Table: Taking Relationships Seriously in a World of Networks

Beth Kanter

We discount the value of future costs and benefits in public and organizational decision-making in favor of those closer to hand. As we see it, the Omaha community is relationships.”. And fourth and finally, relationships take time, yet our culture focuses on the short term. Funder Support for Relationships.

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