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Why are you always talking about "saving the whales?"
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Deborah Elizabeth Finn
on Thu 20 Jan 2005 11:46 AM EST
Whenever I am speaking or writing on the topic of mission-based technology planning, I seem to end up talking about "
saving the whales
." Several people have asked me (or teased me) about this, so here are some reasons...
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