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Mental Inventory Turnover

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Corporate, Pass-Along

Hiring Milkshakes (and other secrets to product development)

  • Pass-Along

    Collaborative Consumption

    I sold my car. It was 3 years old, with just under 9,000 miles, sitting around gathering bird poop…

    June 10, 2022
  • Books

    Mind and Hand: A reflection on MIT’s Executive MBA Program

    Mission Accomplished My father was a Strategy professor at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, one of the top MBA…

    June 3, 2022
  • Corporate

    Why Your IT Department Can’t Build Anything Good

    Why is Dropbox better than anything your IT organization can roll out? Because Dropbox is the flagship product of…

    June 3, 2022
  • Books

    Tear It Down

    In 1998 the smash hit, Oprah Book Club, Pulitzer Prize Finalist novel “The Poisonwood Bible” was released. One story…

    June 3, 2022
  • Corporate

    The serverless job

    “People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole!” Theodore Levitt, Harvard Business School It…

    November 18, 2021
  • Corporate

    How I Got a Job in Innovation

    Once a week, someone asks me “how did you get a job in innovation?” I’ll attempt to spell it…

    March 21, 2019
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