The premise is that consistently successful companies start with an external market orientation and vigilantly study customer trends in order to design their strategy.

FORBES: The Value Of An 'Outside-In' Strategy

There was a report a week ago that the Labor Department and other agencies had already given their thumbs-up to an executive order that would bar -- that would expand the existing executive order barring discrimination in federal contracting based on sexual orientation and gender identity, and that the issue is at the White House for review.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

We will finally add federal protections against crimes based on gender, disability, gender identity, or sexual orientation. (Applause.) And prosecutors will have new tools to work with states in order to prosecute to the fullest those who would perpetrate such crimes.

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