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The Trouble With Best Practices
This article originally appeared in Fast Company. IN THE LATE ’70s, Palo Alto-based entrepreneur Debbi Fields tried to get a loan to start a cookie...
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This article originally appeared in Fast Company. IN THE LATE ’70s, Palo Alto-based entrepreneur Debbi Fields tried to get a loan to start a cookie...
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Conspiracy theory culture is on the rise in general. But in my observation, even the most reasonable people have a conspiracy-related problem in the...
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Mark Tigan, civil servant of the village of Winooski, Vermont, was thirty-two years old when the president of the United States called to shut him...
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Apple Computers is well-known for minimalist product design; its notebook computers are carved from a single block of aluminum to eschew seams....
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Early in my career, I got some advice from a CEO I looked up to:
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Let's talk about the phrase “take at face value” for a moment. In dictionary terms, it means “to accept something as it appears, without looking for...
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In the late 1950s, the Chinese leader Mao Zedong launched a campaign to get rid of four types of pests he deemed responsible for the “transmission of...
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Here's a classic business blunder:
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Recently, I spent over a year researching the little-known history of how the CIA used fake news to overthrow the government of Guatemala in the...
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This treatise on productive brainstorming—or rather, alternatives to it—is based on dozens of scientific studies and voluminous...