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“In the early days, we had no choice but to hire rejects …. Nobody else would come. But we trained the hell out of them, and they became great.” Employees who’ve graduated from top business schools such as Harvard and MIT are incompetent when it...
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August 26, 2015 Bruce Benson
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The trick here is to learn as we go.
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September 18, 2014 Bruce Benson
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Mr. Richards spent thousands of hours studying all the great blues artists and rock virtuosos and integrated this knowledge into his musical compositions.
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July 29, 2014 Bruce Benson
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I remember a candidate once presented me page after page of certifications, each in its acetate protector, neatly organized in a faux-leather binder.
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March 4, 2014 Bruce Benson
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My wife said I was just lucky. Lucky? I’ve been doing this stuff for over 20 years!
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February 12, 2014 Bruce Benson
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Because everyone now had a computer, everyone was sure they knew how to expertly manage them.
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October 15, 2013 Bruce Benson
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To put it bluntly, being an expert can be highly overrated.
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July 6, 2012 Bruce Benson
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Running a project, managing a business or just being a family is often about finding creative ways to get things to happen. Frequently, this is finding innovative ways, like teaching your daughters to play wargames, to motivate people to do or learn useful project skills.
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November 16, 2011 Bruce Benson
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We know everything we need to know (or at least enough), and if we just apply it, we will be successful, even without fancy new project management tools.
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September 5, 2011 Bruce Benson
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My best mentors helped me figure out how to do my job better by giving me information and insight, and not by yelling at me to work harder or to stop bringing up all my crazy project management tool ideas!
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April 25, 2011 Bruce Benson
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