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The Power of Impossible Thinking:

A Prerequisite for Profitable Growth

? Orin Smith

President and CEO, Starbucks Corporation

? Eyal Ofer

Chairman and CEO, Carlyle M.G. Limited UK

? Alfred West

Chairman and CEO, SEI Investments

? Jami Miscik

Deputy Director for Intelligence, CIA

? Colin Crook

Senior Advisor, Wharton Fellows

Moderator: Jerry Wind, The Lauder Professor, Wharton

Premise

Given the magnitude and nature of the changing business environment, most efforts to achieve significant profitable growth require a meaningful change in strategy. Creating and implementing innovative new strategies often require, however, changing ones mental models and engaging in impossible thinking.

The Case for Challenging Ones Mental Models

? The post 9/11 environment... ? Changing consumer behavior... ? Technological and scientific developments ? Economic turbulences... ? Virtual/network corporation and outsourcing... ? Real time enterprises...

? New business and revenue models ... ? Globalization... ? Public confidence in business... ? Business ? Government Relationships... ? Other forces and their interdependencies

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