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Editor's Note: Leadership Personified

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By Adam Platt Verified
| Twin Cities Business Verified
I read an interesting blog post this spring: the author, Aaron Renn of Indianapolis, talked about a changing of the guard in civic leadership, as the corporate sector ceded influence to the nonprofit sector (“How American Cities Lost Their Movers and Shakers”). He pointed to itinerant Fortune 500 CEOs who often didn’t live in the city or won’t put down roots, layered with the growing role the nonprofit sector plays in civic life. We’ve seen a similar evolution here.
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Diamonds Are Forever: A Tour of Minnesota Townball

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By Adam Platt Verified
| Mpls.St.Paul Magazine Verified
At its roots, baseball is a pastoral game, nine people standing in a field. It’s the only spectator sport you can carry on a conversation throughout. And it’s a summertime game that revels in all five senses: At the ballpark, you can hear the crack of the bat, smell the grass, feel the wind. Target and CHS Fields are amazing ballparks, but they are modern iterations, terrified of our shortened attention spans, and thus infused with distractions—video, music, shouty in-game announcers, fireworks.
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Layoffs Analysis: The Star Tribune Shrinks Again

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By Adam Platt Verified
| Twin Cities Business Verified
It’s not easy to tease a lot of insight out of Star Tribune CEO/publisher Steve Grove’s Tuesday announcement that the paper was embarking on another round of headcount reductions, other than that the paper is not immune from the trends weighing on most media. In a letter to staff, Grove announced job cuts of 15%, including cuts in the newsroom, which excluded staffers who gather news. The affected newsroom categories are team leaders, page designers, copy editors, and news assistants.
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