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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 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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November 16, 2023 andreweverett360

Deming: Constancy of Purpose

John Hunter wrote an article for The W. Edwards Deming Institute titled Create Constancy of Purpose (September 21, 2015).  

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March 7, 2023 andreweverett360

Michael Simmons on Long-Term Time Horizon

Michael Simmons wrote a Medium post titled Bezos, Musk, & Buffett See The World Differently, Because They See Time Differently (May 14, 2020).

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February 13, 2023February 12, 2023 andreweverett360

Second-Order Thinking

Shane Parrish wrote an article on Farnam Street titled Second-Order Thinking: What Smart People Use to Outperform.

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December 26, 2022 andreweverett360

Henry Mintzberg: Managers not MBAs

Henry Mintzberg wrote a blog post titled MBAs as CEOs: Some troubling evidence (22 February 2017).

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December 18, 2022December 17, 2022 andreweverett360

The Best Way To Decide Who Gets Promoted

Roger Dooley wrote an article for Forbes titled Tom Peters: The Best Way To Decide Who Gets Promoted, based on his interview with the famous author.

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June 7, 2022 andreweverett360

Roger Martin: The unhelpful distinction between choices that are strategic, executional, or tactical

Roger L. Martin wrote an article for Harvard Business Review titled Strategic Choices Need to be Made Simultaneously, Not Sequentially (April 3, 2017).

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May 16, 2022 andreweverett360

Getting Strategy Wrong

Richard Rumelt wrote an article for McKinsey Quarterly titled Getting Strategy Wrong—And How to Do It Right Instead (May 3, 2022).

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May 4, 2022 andreweverett360

Shorter meetings could help fight digital burnout

Megan Carnegie wrote an article for Wired UK titled The Rise of the 15-Minute Meeting.

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