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Thanks for your 3 months of work on the competitive analysis, Suzy. Let’s meet at 3:30 tomorrow and figure out how to implement!

Here’s a great interview with Columbia University professor of management William Dugan about why brainstorming doesn’t always serve our needs as well as it could. I echo some of his thoughts from my personal experience below. Surely you’ve had these … Continue reading

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Doing things we don’t like makes us human.

My friend Steve sent me this NY Times article by David Brooks. In a nutshell, Mr. Brooks says we ought to ‘outsource’ things we don’t like doing or thinking about with technology. Says Mr. Brooks, use a GPS instead of … Continue reading

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