“The goal [of writing] is to get to the place where your usual judgy mind has been quietened, your easy opinions get reduced and you’re in a kind of holy state of not knowing anything.”
— George Saunders
Making Space
January is the time to set new resolutions, goals and targets. However, our best intentions usually fall by the wayside come March.
Cognitive science suggests that real progress comes from dedicated, distraction-free time and mental solitude to practice, fail, and persist – not from strategies or slogans.
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The History And Evolution Of The Operating Model
A mainstay in business since the 2000s, the operating model is used to describe many things for different purposes. Tracing its evolution – from concrete objects to PowerPoint constructs – could help us reframe how it should be deployed in organizations.
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