MAGE, LLC AND GAZELLES TO HOST EXECUTIVE PROGRAM
ON NOV. 5-6, 2003

Executive Program with celebrated author and business 'growth' guru to develop management and leadership skills in growing companies

Needham, Mass. - Mage, LLC, a strategic, organizational development, change management, and financial and technology services firm, today announced that it will co-host an Executive Program with Gazelles, an internationally-recognized provider of top-level executive training, on November 5-6, 2003 at the Hyatt Regency Cambridge. This unique program will feature celebrated business author and management guru Verne Harnish. Gazelles provides Fortune 50-quality programs to improve mid-market executives' business skills while meeting their time and budget constraints. The focus of the upcoming Gazelles' Executive Program will be on developing tools to triple your industry's average profitability, increase the value of your firm, and address the expected "communication" challenges that come with a growing business.

"We are excited about the opportunity to host our Executive Program with Mage in the Boston area," said Verne Harnish, founder and CEO of Gazelles, Inc. "Gazelles is internationally known as the premier outsourced corporate university for mid-size firms. Our mission is to bring high-quality executive programs to mid-market executives in order to increase their management, leadership and business skills. Our programs, which are modeled after Dell Learning, GE's Leadership Center, and Motorola University's seminars, are highly interactive and have been proven successful."

The Boston-area Gazelles' Executive Program will run from 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. on November 5-6, 2003. Harnish, a celebrated business author and founder of Gazelles, will speak on a number of pertinent subjects from his best-selling book Mastering the Rockefeller Habits. Harnish is widely sough after as a speaker for his knowledge of leadership and management issues and is a longtime contributor to Inc., Fortune Small Business (Growth Guru Column) and numerous other publications, as well as the founder of the Young Entrepreneurs' Organization and the Association of Collegiate Entrepreneurs.

Discussion topics will include:
- Highlighting a workable, strategic-planning process
- Making sure you have the right people doing the right things within your organization
- Dialogue tools for communicating more clearly as a leadership team
- Ways to bring your 'core values' alive in your organization
- More details in conducting effective daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual meetings and how to keep them valuable
- A program for keeping innovation and ideas flowing through the organization
- Reviewing a universal problem-solving process

For more information about Gazelles' Boston Executive Program, please contact Nicole Pascale of Gazelles (npascale@gazelles.com - 703-858-2300) or Michael Lynch of Mage (mlynch@mageusa.com - 781-449-8366).

About Mage, LLC
Founded in 1983 as a business and management-consulting firm, Mage has helped more than 600 companies achieve their organizational and strategic goals. Mage specializes in creating value through leadership coaching, high-powered team building, strategic planning, organizational development, financial counsel and technology solutions. Mage is committed to the continuous improvement of its clients' capabilities, offering a full menu of tailored management, organizational and financial and technology advisory services. For more information, please call (781) 449-8366 or visit www.mageusa.com. ###

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