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Why do some people take ownership of problems that others pass by without a response? I don’t have an answer, but if you do, please add a comment.
Are you an owner?Supposedly, the Ivory Tower has nothing to teach business people, but here are three lessons business could learn by looking a bit more closely.
Read moreI was doing something the other day (I forget what it was) that involved filters for reducing line noise and amplifiers for boosting signal. Or roughly that, because I forget the situation exactly. But it suddenly struck me that people can either be amplifiers or filters, and which one you are at a given moment [...]
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.
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 »
There’s not much to say. This site is maintained (to put it charitably!) by Tom Lambert, a historian by profession, an outdoorsman by avocation and a geek by nature.
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