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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the reset button. Most computer problems can be solved by rebooting. Our heater was malfunctioning and until the repairman could get there, I could keep it going by hitting the reset button. I started thinking about forest fires. We used to think fire was bad, but now that [...]
George Hartzog, the greatest leader of National Park Service understood that creativity can be crushed in the name of “standards.” He killed the employee handbooks and set his people free.
Even if you don’t achieve huge success, conducting interviews and listening more carefully to the way you and others speak will be enlightening. I’m just getting started on interviews, but already I feel it’s changing the way I speak or at least making me aware of some annoying habits in my speech.
If you hate listening to yourself, read on »Like a lot of old saws, this one is wrong. Here’s why.
Read where power really comes from »Common sense keeps us from doing uncommonly stupid things. And uncommonly wonderful things.
Common sense leads to… Read on »The 212:The Extra Degree metaphor is fundamentally broken in both its inspiration and its application. Excellence is typically not a state change achieved by just a bit more, but rather, something else entirely.
Why it takes more than an extra degree. Read on »
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