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Wharton professor Len Lodish used to say "It's better to be vaguely right than precisely wrong". That thought has helped me prioritize things for a long time and keep my eyes on the big picture. It's probably even better to think in terms of "Get vaguely right, then precisely right." Think about playing a golf [...]
"Hurry up. Toytime is over. Everyone is back from books. It's time for preces." This was my welcome into my new school, Winchester College. What was abundantly clear was that they had their own language and I had no clue what the key words meant. Fortunately, they had a "Notions" book that spelled out the [...]
I had worked flat out for 16 hours writing up a market share summary. It went through countless iterations as it worked its way up my management ladder. Finally, my boss’s boss’s boss’s boss signed off on it and asked me to give him 12 copies to forward. Since it was after 4:30 and all [...]
I'm giving a talk on onboarding in Lima, Peru this morning. I've decided to turn it into a conversation instead of a talk because I'm not sure which of my assumptions are valid in this culture. Having been single-mindedly focused on onboarding since 2003, I'm normally reasonably assertive about my point of view because I'm [...]
TV Soap Operas Most television series devolve into soap operas over time. As explained in that source of all true knowledge, Wikipedia, “most soap operas follow the lives of a group of characters who live or work in a particular place”. Don’t get me wrong. Soap operas have an important place in the universe of [...]