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“I want to do with you what Spring does with the cherry trees.”
Nine Lies About Work
Marcus Buckingham, Ashley Goodall
Linear relationships are truly the exception; we only focus on them in classrooms and textbooks because they are easier to understand. Yesterday afternoon I tried to take a fresh look around me to catalog what I could see during my day that was linear. I could not find anything, no more than someone hunting for squares or triangles could find them in the rain forest—or, as we will see in Part Three, any more than someone looking for bell-shape randomness finding it in socioeconomic phenomena. You play tennis every day with no improvement, then suddenly you start beating the pro.
The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“In ten years, I’m certain every COO worth their salt will have come from IT. Any COO who doesn’t intimately understand the IT systems that actually run the business is just an empty suit, relying on someone else to do their job.”
The Phoenix Project
Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
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