Experts Are Human Beings Too
People think that doctors are immune to petty disagreements, but they're human beings, and sometimes ego and primitive emotions take over.
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Shortcuts Do Not Exist
Knowing the adoption curve an organization will go through makes it almost easy, almost, to patiently endure the inevitable initial resistance.
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Efficient vs Innovative
That was one of my biggest fears. We would deliver the product on time with good quality but the product wouldn't sell well.
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Lessons Learned From 800 Million Tweets
At 6 am, analytical thinking was shown to peak. However, in the evenings and nights this thinking style changed to a more emotional and existential one.
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Being Too Simple Can Be A Good Thing
Yet Abt, on behalf of Carthage College, in Kenosha, Wis., has returns that beat Harvard ’s $37 billion endowment and most others. In the 10 years through the most recent college fiscal year, ended on June 30, 2017, the former beer company executive racked up...
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Shaping Priorities
“It’s almost like a dark state going on in Tallahassee,” said Rep. Carlos Trujillo, a Miami Republican and critic of the “culture of Tallahassee that compromises the process” because “priorities are shaped not on policy, but on relationships. Code of silence is breaking on Tallahassee’s...
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Agile Needs An Appropriate Culture
I recall their often repeated truism that new tools or new processes wouldn't fix an otherwise dysfunctional organization.
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Answering The Question: Why Are You In Here?
Elon to a meeting member: "You haven't said anything. Why are you in here?"
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Take Your Moonshot
“We grew up,” says Verily Chief Executive Officer Andy Conrad. The middle-aged geneticist has adopted the Silicon Valley T-shirt and-flip-flops wardrobe of eternal youth, but he’s given up on a lot of the jargon, including Google’s onetime favorite word. Like some other Alphabet holdings, 500-staffer...
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Use Unconventional Persistence To Prepare For The Emergency
In the runup to the planned debut of the latest MacBook Pro, Apple’s home computer division had a bit of a meltdown. Enhanced battery life was supposed to be one of the big selling points for the new version of the company’s main laptop, with...
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When Your Data Doesn’t Accurately Predict Your Progress
This is the message that American University history professor Allan Lichtman has been screaming at the world since 1981: It’s not that the polling system itself is broken — instead, polls behave exactly as they’re designed. The problem is they aren’t designed to predict the...
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Being Successful By Focusing On Something Other Than Just Profit
Sometimes O’Neil’s comments on corporations are not as nuanced as you’d expect from a math-prof-turned-hedgefunder. “The model is optimized for efficiency and profitability, not for justice or the good of the ‘team.’ This is, of course, the nature of capitalism,” she writes. Yes, but there...
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Refactoring Stream-Of-Thought Management
Refactoring not only helps improve the mechanical quality of code; it also helps you learn from your code. When refactoring, you converge on better models. Right now, your code works, but it may feel tense, even a bit brittle. Refactoring reveals the implicit model, which...
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Lessons Learned From South Africa’s Infrastructure Initiatives
The numbers are big, but the effectiveness of the infrastructure spending has been very, very poor.
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Top Down Or Bottom Up
We have a bias that everything has to be done in precise and perfect ways.
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