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		<title>Why We Need To Fail Better In Our Organizations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sounds like an odd statement to make. Right?
Recently, I had the opportunity to be a presenter at the Spring 2010 National Forum of the Arts Education Partnership in Washington, DC. One of the many perks of attending this event was to hear speeches by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and National Endowment for the [...]

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		<title>Michael Kosmala joins panel to discuss Online Community Building at National Conference in April</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Kosmala of The Canoe Group will be a featured panelist next month at the Arts Education Partnership&#8217;s (AEP) Spring 2010 National Forum “States of Change:  New Leadership in Arts and Education” on April 9-10 in Washington, DC.  Joining arts education leaders from Oregon, Kansas and Arizona onstage, Kosmala will share The Canoe [...]

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		<title>Using Essential Questions to inform Better Decisions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is an essential question? Math Star, an education think tank/collaborative, defines essential question with these criteria:  “the best essential questions center around major issues, problems, concerns, interests, or themes relevant to our lives and communities. Good essential questions are open-ended, non-judgmental, meaningful and purposeful with emotive force and intellectual bite, and invite an [...]

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		<title>Adapt &amp; Endure: Lessons learned from an iconic 19th century American Company</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Watching the Discovery Channel’s nature series, I’m struck by the adaptive strategies all around us.  In every aspect of the natural world we inhabit, plants and animals adapt – or die.  It’s not the strong that survive (think Tyrranosaurus Rex);  it’s those that adapt as the environment changes. Don’t get me wrong, strong can be [...]

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		<title>The Canoe Group guides Strategic Planning for the newly formed Willamette Heritage Center</title>
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Early in 2010, Mission Mill Museum and the Marion County Historical Society merged to create the new Willamette Heritage Center (WHC), a forward-thinking Salem-based heritage organization dedicated to “interpret the social, economic, cultural, and political development of our community.&#8221; The Canoe Group’s pre-planning with WHC’s 12-member Advancement Committee defined the priority list of research questions [...]

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		<title>Kirklin Thompson Pope Trial Lawyers Retains The Canoe Group for Web and Identity Development</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Canoe Group has been retained by Kirklin Thompson Pope Trial Lawyers LLC to design and develop a new Kirklin Thompson Pope website and identity.  
To tighten the focus of Kirklin Thompson Pope’s communications goals, The Canoe Group began by conducting and editing video interviews, helping the partners articulate their shared values, common beliefs, [...]

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		<title>The Canoe Group works with the Tillamook Estuaries Partnership to refocus Vision for the Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Lisa Phipps, Executive Director of Tillamook Estuaries Partnership (TEP) first contacted The Canoe Group, she explained her organization’s history:  Founded as part of the National Estuary Project through the Clean Water Act, TEP works to conserve and restore the five Tillamook County estuaries and the watersheds that sustain them. 
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		<title>Project Management: 6 Steps to Creating a Successful RASCI Chart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The August, 2009 edition of our newsletter The J-Stroke introduced the RASCI tool as a means of discussing and clarifying roles/responsibilities in any organizational project or initiative.
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		<title>Shared leadership meets the Cannon Beach Sandcastle Contest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In mid-June, The Canoe Group and friends spent a weekend on the Oregon Coast. We entered a team in the annual Cannon Beach Sandcastle Contest. We loved being with our friends and we built this totally cool and totally transitory thing. We learned a lot together.
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