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Taking strategy seriously.
The story of United Airlines, a newly announced strategy, and a 15% drop in their stock price. | learn more
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Who is driving the great resignation?
“According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 4 million Americans quit their jobs in July 2021. Resignations peaked in April and have remained abnormally high for the last several months, with a record-breaking 10.9 million open jobs at the […]
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How big tech runs tech projects.
“A survey of how tech projects run across the industry highlights Scrum being absent from Big Tech. Why is this, and are there takeaways others should take note of?” | learn more
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Tyler Cowen: How I practice at what I do.
“A few of you were skeptical, but it is long since established that practice improves both your writing and your memory, so surely it can do much more than that for your thinking. Here is a partial list of some of […]
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Minimum viable product manager.
“That intersection is what I call the Minimum Viable Product Manager (MVPM), and it defines a set of skills or knowledge that are useful to be an effective generalist product manager, one who can work on almost any problem.” | learn more
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Machine learning predictions of panic selling.
“Despite standard investment advice to the contrary, individuals often engage in panic selling, liquidating significant portions of their risky assets in response to large losses.” | learn more
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Are we really more productive working from home?
“Data from the pandemic can guide organizations struggling to reimagine the new office.” | learn more
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When costs are nonlinear, keep it small.
“We like batching. Batching is more efficient doing ten at once is faster than doing one, one, two, one, one, etc. I don’t wash my socks as soon as I take them off, because lumping them in with the next […]
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Hundreds of ways to get shit done—and we still don’t.
“Chen and Guzman could see an accumulation of sprawling, ambitious lists of tasks that users utterly failed to accomplish. In 2014, fully 41 percent of to-do items on IDoneThis were never … done.” | learn more