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Shane Snow: Mar 29, 2023 2:25:24 AM
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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Shane Snow: Mar 25, 2023 3:33:14 AM
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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Shane Snow: Jan 15, 2023 12:48:59 PM
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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Shane Snow: Jan 15, 2023 12:47:33 PM
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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Shane Snow: Jan 15, 2023 12:43:05 PM
Early in my career, I got some advice from a CEO I looked up to:
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Shane Snow: Jan 15, 2023 12:41:18 PM
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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Shane Snow: Jan 15, 2023 12:40:12 PM
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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Shane Snow: Jan 15, 2023 12:39:31 PM
Here's a classic business blunder:
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Shane Snow: Jan 15, 2023 12:35:38 PM
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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Shane Snow: Jan 10, 2023 4:49:58 PM
This treatise on productive brainstorming—or rather, alternatives to it—is based on dozens of scientific studies and voluminous...
