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Strategic planning in picture form

February 10, 2012 by Andrew Taylor

If you hit this sign, you will hit that bridge

Flickr: josephleenovak

‘Nuff said.

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  1. Jerry Yoshitomi says

    February 12, 2012 at 2:13 pm

    This image and the preceding stories about the use of images (as well as clearer descriptors of Mahler) supports the view that we need to create more effective images as we describe our work. Words often fail us.

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