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He always skipped the Alpha Sig Sunday tea dances and never had a date at the fraternity house.29 His face would flush and he would stare at his shoes if anyone talked about sex.30 He was out of his element at such a hard-partying school, where the college fight song was “Drink a Highball.” “I tried drinking because I was in a fraternity where about half my dues were going to buy alcohol for these parties. I felt I was getting screwed. But I just didn’t like the taste. I don’t like beer. And I can behave silly enough without it.”
The Snowball
Alice Schroeder
Two forces in particular deserve our attention: imperialism and capitalism. The feedback loop between science, empire and capital has arguably been history’s chief engine for the past 500 years. The following chapters analyse its workings. First we’ll look at how the twin turbines of science and empire were latched to one another, and then learn how both were hitched up to the money pump of capitalism.
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
Improving Execution of the Original Strategy In the early years of my tenure as CEO, we focused relentlessly on execution, not strategy. There was nothing inherently wrong with the current strategy, but we weren't yet close to executing it to its full potential. Finance was starving the company for resources, sales couldn't recruit to hiring targets, our cloud service was highly unreliable, and our engineering department was anemic in terms of resourcing.
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