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Is Technology Your Crutch?

Is Technology Your Crutch?

I’m sitting in Boston airport waiting for my flight back to Vancouver, pondering if technology has become a crutch for organizations. I came down to speak at a conference on data and my talk was focused on how to generate more insights. The overall conference is heavily focused on tools so you have lots of …

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What If You Only Made One Great Decision Per Year?

What If You Only Made One Great Decision Per Year?

In the latest shareholder letter, Warren Buffet attributed his success to a “handful of decisions” over his entire career. It wasn’t about getting thousands of decisions right but only a few. It’s a powerful idea that goes against everything we are told about decisions. Even in my second book, Bulletproof Decisions, I started with the …

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Are You Still Communicating by Beeper?

Are You Still Communicating by Beeper?

I remember what it was like to leave a message for my Mom on her beeper before cell phones became mainstream. You would call a service where someone would transcribe your message. They would then send it electronically to the beeper of your choosing. There was a character limit (the original Twitter?) but the messages …

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Who Asked You for Feedback?!

Who Asked You for Feedback?!

Ambitious individuals (Type A for my scientific-inclined readers) love feedback. They want as much as possible because they have a belief that all feedback will help them. In fact, organizations often lose some of the most high potential employees because they don’t receive enough feedback, especially the constructive kind. However, not all feedback is equal …

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