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Radio Marketing Can Be Cheap and Powerful The last thing the average co-op manager has time for is figuring out the vagaries of radio. We know virtually nothing about reading Wilhite surveys, drive-time placement, writing... |
09 Jan 2004 | #077 July - August - 1998 |
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Democracy Works Democracy Works |
08 Jan 2004 | #104 January - February - 2003 |
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Helping Build a Thriving Future for Food Cooperatives Long before "just do it" became part of the American lexicon, the teenaged Homer Hickam, inspired by the launch of Sputnik in 1957 and fueled by a desire to beat the Russians at the space race,... |
08 Jan 2004 | #102 September - October - 2002 |
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Maintaining Co-op Democracy As a member of the Willy Street Co-op board in Madison, Wisc., I'm interested in creative ways to stimulate member participation in our cooperative. We held an annual meeting last August and... |
08 Jan 2004 | #098 January - February - 2002 |
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A Member Linkage Tool Builds Policy and Action NOTE: This article is a summary of a workshop presented at CCMA 2000 called "Building Member Linkage: A Tool for Policy and Action." What follows is first a description of the presentation... |
08 Jan 2004 | #092 January - February - 2001 |
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Ends: Defining Your Cooperative Advantage This article is intended for everyone who is inspired or in any way impacted by cooperative principles. It focuses on defining the difference a cooperative makes in the world and the dramatic... |
08 Jan 2004 | #097 November - December - 2001 |
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Lessons from the Planning Front Lines Does the idea of planning sessions with your co-op board of directors fill you with dread? Do you spend more time talking about planning than actually doing any planning? Are your... |
08 Jan 2004 | #086 January - February - 2000 |
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Time To Reshape Cooperative Identity? It's a new century -- is it time to reshape cooperative identity? The new millennium has dawned, and with it comes heightened clarity in our collective awareness of the importance... |
08 Jan 2004 | #087 March - April - 2000 |
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Management Evaluation Under Policy Governance The relationship between the board and the general manager is probably the most important relationship in a co-op. To be successful, a cooperative needs a strong manager AND a... |
08 Jan 2004 | #084 September - October - 1999 |
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Promoting Organizational Healing Ever heard the phrase, "Work smarter, not harder?" Ever wonder, as I have, exactly what that phrase means? T've thought about it for a while and have some thoughts I'd like to... |
08 Jan 2004 | #083 July - August - 1999 |
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Encountering Cooperative Extremists Do the following statements or situations sound familiar in our cooperatives? |
08 Jan 2004 | #083 July - August - 1999 |
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Transforming Workplace Culture "Culture" maybe hard to define, but the signs of a dysfunctional workplace culture are hard to ignore. Do any of these sound like your co-op? |
08 Jan 2004 | #074 January - February - 1998 |
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Building Accountability Who would choose to work for an organization that does not hold the general manager accountable? Would you want to work for an organization that does not hold your co-workers... |
08 Jan 2004 | #085 November - December - 1999 |
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Two Stores and Growing: Bloomingfoods Market and Deli Nestled in the rolling hills of southern Indiana, Bloomington is an oasis of natural beauty and culture and is home to Indiana University, the state's largest school. Bloomingfoods... |
08 Jan 2004 | #081 March - April - 1999 |
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Crafting Cash Flow Budgets Profit alone does not guarantee success or even survival. Unless you project the co-op's cash requirements and manage accordingly, there are likely to be some harsh surprises ahead... |
08 Jan 2004 | #085 November - December - 1999 |
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CoCoFiSt Data Sharing Strengthens Co-ops Retail food cooperatives have long valued their unique characteristics and independence. Current events in our industry have left many co-ops with declining market share, weak... |
08 Jan 2004 | #085 November - December - 1999 |
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Pursuing a Co-op Controlled Label I am passionate about natural foods. I am passionate about co-ops. And I am passionate about success. |
08 Jan 2004 | #084 September - October - 1999 |
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Democratic Management in the Real World I don't have any statistics on this, but I'd bet that the vast majority of natural foods co-ops started out as collectively run organizations. For many members and employees of... |
08 Jan 2004 | #082 May - June - 1999 |
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Retained Earnings or Returned Earnings? Ask co-op members anywhere, "What's the purpose of this co-op, anyway?" and you'll likely get some variation of the answer, "To serve the members." Ask them how best to do that,... |
08 Jan 2004 | #080 January - February - 1999 |
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Clarifying Board and Management Roles in Expansion/Relocation Projects Many co-ops talk about the need to move or expand for years. Often it is all talk, with a few false starts and little formal planning or action. For other co-ops, an opportunity to... |
08 Jan 2004 | #083 July - August - 1999 |
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Are You Experienced? Want some good news? Co-op store productivity increased in the third quarter of 1998, when compared to the third quarter of 1997. (See Graph 1.) Want some bad... |
08 Jan 2004 | #081 March - April - 1999 |
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Building Relationships With Financial Partners A relative recently gave one of us a book of pithy personal advice with the humble title of "How to do Everything Right" (we won't dwell on the reason for this particular gift).... |
08 Jan 2004 | #084 September - October - 1999 |
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Global Organics: Christmas Every Day? To everything turn, turn, turn, there is a season, turn, turn, turn.... |
08 Jan 2004 | #083 July - August - 1999 |
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Good News and Old News There is so much good news to report, in addition to what appears in this edition, that many of the stories will have to wait. For example: new co-op stores! |
08 Jan 2004 | #083 July - August - 1999 |
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Staff Teams Build Effective Solutions Introducing forms of participation to a traditional management hierarchy was the goal; a quality improvement process was the method. The history of Hanover Consumer Co-op and my... |
08 Jan 2004 | #080 January - February - 1999 |
