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May 13, 2024May 13, 2024 andreweverett360

Risk: Global averages do not apply to local failures if they can be catastrophic.

JP Castlin wrote a LinkedIn post titled The risk(s) of not understanding risk (May 13, 2024).

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April 28, 2024 andreweverett360

Rebecca Solnit on Walking and Thinking

Maria Popova wrote a book review on Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit.

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April 11, 2024June 12, 2025 andreweverett360

Marketing Podcast on Adaptive Strategy, Efficiency, and Resilience

Shahin Khan and Doug Garnett interviewed JP Castlin about Adaptive Strategy, Efficiency, and Resilience for their Marketing Podcast #41 (5 April 2024).

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April 4, 2024 andreweverett360

Too much heroic leadership, Not enough engaging management.

Henry Mintzberg wrote a blog post title Managing to Lead (19 February 2015).

« I propose an end to the belief that leadership is separate from management, and superior to it. »

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April 1, 2024 andreweverett360

CFOs play an outsized role in crushing innovation.  

Roger L. Martin wrote a Medium post titled How to Become a Strategic Chief Financial Officer (1 April 2024).

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March 30, 2024 andreweverett360

Jeff Bezos: When the data and the anecdotes disagree, the anecdotes are usually right.

On his eponymous podcast, Lex Fridman interviewed Jeff Bezos.

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March 28, 2024March 25, 2024 andreweverett360

Management Debt

Parv Sondhi tweeted “We’ve all heard of technical debt, but I love this concept of management debt.”

He refers this a passage from the book The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers (2014) by Ben Horowitz:

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March 26, 2024March 25, 2024 andreweverett360

Can you Copyright a Golf Course? Not Yet…

Kirk Hartung wrote an article titled The BIRDIE Act: Copyrights for Golf Courses (March 21, 2024).

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March 23, 2024March 24, 2024 andreweverett360

Can You Patent a Pizza?

Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley co-hosted a Gastropod podcast episode titled  Can You Patent A Pizza? (March 5, 2024, 49 minutes). Guests included Anthony Mongiello, inventor of stuffed crust pizza; Chris Sprigman, law professor, NYU; Valerie Flugge, assistant professor of business law, California State University, Northridge.

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March 3, 2024 andreweverett360

The complex ontology

Doug Garnett wrote a blog post titled The Unspoken Limits of Business Philosophy. Fortunately, the World Is Far Bigger (28 February 2024).

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