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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

I’m going to start by going back to 1994. It’s a wonderfully compelling idea, but it’s a little like video streaming in 1994: the hardware simply isn’t there yet. I chose to use computers I owned that were designed for compactness for their time. Read Gotham: The History of New York City to 1898.)

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Why Having A BHAG Is Critical To Your Company’s Success

YoungUpstarts

BHAGs were established by management guru Jim Collins in his 1994 book “ Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Good to Great) “ , co-authored with Stanford professor Jerry Porras. We started franchising and slowly expanded from Fairfield County in Connecticut over to New York. What’s a BHAG?