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All of which brings us back to CAC. Last August, in Shopify and the Hard Thing About Easy Things, I wrote: Here’s the hard thing about easy things: if everyone can do something, there’s no advantage to doing it, but you still have to do it anyway just to keep up.
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Kathryn interrupted politely. “Actually, this is very common in the automotive world. I had the same issue there. It's more of a behavioral issue than a technological one.” Jeff nodded and smiled as if to say, Good answer. And with that, Martin closed his laptop and put it in his computer case. More than one of the staff members looked at Kathryn as if she had just talked a bank robber into handing over his gun.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Patrick M. Lencioni
Men such as Duarte Pacheco Pereira, substituting firsthand observation for the received wisdom of the ancients, operated within the parameters of Renaissance inquiry. Information about the new world was fed back into a central hub, the India House in Lisbon, where everything was stored under the crown’s direct control to inform the next cycle of voyages. This system of feedback and adaptation was rapid and effective.
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