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FaceTime with the Content Guy:  “Listen My Children and You Shall Hear…”

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Over the weekend, the nation celebrated the beginning of the Revolutionary War and especially the midnight ride of Paul Revere, which is emblematic of our forefathers’ struggle against a tyrannical king.  But a piece in the Boston Globe offered, I thought, a business metaphor inside this classic American story.

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