INTRODUCTION

The CEO Refresher is an on-line publication featuring articles, news releases, conferences, book reviews, and links of interest to CEOs and business leaders. The focus is - creative leadership, competitive strategy, leading change, and performance improvement ... brain food for business! The CEO Refresher is - insightful, mindful, informative, quick and easy to read, strategic and somewhat revolutionary. For our viewers the price of admission is very reasonable! For our contributors the price of admission is mindfulness and insight - and that is priceless!

VIEWERS

The CEO Refresher viewers are business leaders, executives, managers and students. The web site statistics highlight 65% of hits from U.S. sources, 10% Canadian and 25% International (most notable - Australia, U.K., India, China, Singapore, Netherlands, Ireland, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Malaysia, Japan, New Zealand, Germany, Poland, France, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, Thailand, Mexico, Sweden, Czech Republic, Vietnam, Indonesia, Spain and Brazil.

The CEO Refresher is indeed international with visitors from over 100 countries on all continents on the planet in recent months. The subscribers are highly educated senior executives, professionals and managers keenly interested in creative leadership, strategy, leading change, performance improvement and personal effectiveness. Previous research details are reported here - http://www.refresher.com/ceoresearch.html .

TRAFFIC

Detailed reporting is available for the refresher.com site from February 1, 2001. All of the statistics apply to The CEO Refresher current issue page, archive summary pages, links page, and other feature pages with an .html extension, as well as the related Words & Wisdom and High Performance Retail pages. The statistics exclude the hits and page views created by spiders, robots and other critters prowling the internet. As of May 9, 2007 the traffic is reported by Advanced Web Statistics 6.4.

SEARCH ENGINES

The CEO Refresher is listed on all major search engines and has scored very highly on all relevant keywords, the most significant being CEO, leadership, strategy, management, business magazines and business articles. As of June 1, 2007 however, a subscription is required to view the articles in The CEO Refresher Archives and this folder protection has had an adverse impact on site search rankings.

PERMISSION TO REPRINT

In contributing to The CEO Refresher the contributor agrees that Refresher Publications Inc. and the editors of The CEO Refresher have the right to grant permission to reprint and have no liability whatsoever in granting such permission to reprint the contributor's work. All legalize aside, we are committed to providing our contributors the best exposure possible in the current issue and archives of The CEO Refresher and in other high quality and appropriate international publications.

We have granted permission to the publications and organizations noted below to reprint selected articles in their hard copy and internet publications.

The CEO Refresher has granted permission to the following publications to translate articles into Chinese, reprint them in their hard copy magazines and feature them on their internet sites:

• Chief Executive China,
• SAR Media,
• EMBA Magazine,
• Cite Publishing Ltd.
• Best Pr@ctices

Permission has been given to QualityMark.com to translate articles into Portuguese and feature them on their internet site.

Permission has been given to The Russia Journal and a new Russian-language magazine, Globiz, dedicated to educating Russians in values of free and competitive market economy, to translate articles into Russian and feature them on their web site and magazine.

Permission has been given to the Ukrainian Internet portal for managers Management: Methodology and Practice, to translate articles into Ukranian and feature them on their web site - www.management.com.ua/ .

Permission has been given to Human Resources and Management Magazine to translate articles into Turkish and feature them on their web site.

Permission has also been given to United Media Services, Oman's premier media house, to feature articles in the Oman Economic Review - Oman's leading business and economy magazine, and Qatar Today - Qatar's only business and lifestyle magazine. The combined print distribution is approximately 40,000 copies monthly.

Permission to feature selected articles on the internet and/or in hard copy has also been granted to the following publications and organizations:

• Achiever's Manual published in Lagos, Nigeria,
• American Marketing Association
• BetterManagement.com,
• Boardmember.com,
• Butterworths Singapore,
• Ericsson South East Asia newsletter,
• Great Eastern's Life is Great.com,
• Growing Trends - the official publication of the Illinois Nurserymen's Association, distributed to 2000 green industry businesses throughout the U.S. each month,
• Hanley-Wood Integrated Marketing to feature articles in FedEx ShipSmart E-news, a monthly publication distributed to 100,000 FedEx clients in the U.S.
• LeaderVision.net,
• Loyola University - Chicago - selected articles for educational purposes.
• Management Centre Europe,
• Management Institute of Paris,
• MashreqBank - Dubai, United Arab Emirates,
• MBA Depot,
• National Home Furnishings Association,
• Royal Bank.
• Salon.com,
• State Farm Insurance Companies Intranet
• Tourism Authority of Thailand
• Tradenex.com - a subsidiary of the Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers.
• Waseda University International, Tokyo, Japan - selected articles for educational purposes.

The requesting publishers have agreed to cite the copyright for any article reprinted in the author's name, with a caption that the author's work is reprinted with permission from The CEO Refresher. Before granting permission to reprint articles the editors of The CEO Refresher will endeavour to ensure the requesting publication will maintain the highest standards of integrity with regards to the content of any article reprinted, and will, where possible, advise the author of the work of the expected publication date.

INTERNATIONAL EXPOSURE

The CEO Refresher is content rich and our articles are being featured in a growing number of on-line newsletters, magazines and business portals. Articles in The CEO Refresher are featured in a variety of international publications and have been translated into Chinese, Russian, Portuguese, Ukrainian and Turkish and read by viewers in over 100 countries on all continents. It's international "brain food for business" and we do our best to provide maximum exposure for our contributors' great work.

LINKS

The CEO Refresher is listed as a valuable site on many reference and links pages of business portals and universities, and we have an increasing number of reciprocal links with high quality and mindful web sites. There are well over 400 sites linking to The CEO Refresher articles and features.

ACCOLADES

The CEO Refresher has been acknowledged as a significant site by several publications and organizations including being featured in Harvard Business School's excellent Working Knowledge site. We sincerely appreciate the recognition and are inspired to continue our work of featuring high quality content and mindful material for our viewers. Viewer comments and accolades can be found here - http://www.refresher.com/accolades.html .

The CEO Refresher is a Canadian publication with an international audience of subscribers and viewers. The subscribers and viewers are highly educated senior executives, professionals and managers keenly interested in creative leadership, strategy, leading change, performance improvement and personal effectiveness - quite a significant international network of mindful leaders.

Thank you for your interest.

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