Target corporation, just a few miles down the road from Best Buy, in the same town, and competing for the same corporate retail talent, never adopted a formal ROWE program, and never needed to, in fact, Target has been tremendously successful in recruiting great talent, while embracing the concept that dressing up and going into work, to work with your teams and colleagues is a good thing.

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Unfortunately the 2007 iF Award-winning stove is only a concept for now -- meaning you won't see it on sale at Target anytime soon -- so if you want a real bonfire whose flames kiss the forest's leafy canopy, a crew of indentured campers is still your best bet.

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While Best Buy and Yahoo floundered for the past decade or so, Google and Target continued to be success stories by utilizing, and embracing, the power of presence, the concept of team, the benefits of being together, working together and seeing one another as a result of showing up to work.

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