If you call any of us at Quality Digest today, you are going to go straight to voicemail. That’s because the entire team is taking a day away from our regular work to gather, plan, debate, eat, and strategize during the company retreat. This day—today—we step away from the phones, the emails, the meetings, and the customer interactions to look at each other, breathe, and ask as many questions as we possibly can about everything we do. Five whys? Ha. We’ll hit double that number before our first coffee break.

Our industry (by which we mean the media industry) has always moved quickly, but of late change has occurred at speeds that warp not only time and space, but sometimes meaning and perspective, too. Many of the ways that we reach you and share information were developed months ago; some came online a year or more in the past; a few are even legacies of our print days in 2009 and before. During the retreat, all of them will be open for consideration and reconsideration as we add fresh new ideas to our mix.

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