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In the past, there was a huge demand for employees with type 1 skills, and a small need for type 2 talent. Our mathematics education process largely met both needs. It has always focused primarily on producing people of the first variety, but some of them inevitably turned out to be good at the second kind of activities as well. So all was well. But in today’s world, where companies must constantly innovate to stay in business, the demand is shifting toward type 2 mathematical thinkers—to people who can think outside the mathematical box, not inside it. Now, suddenly, all is not well.
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If we can love that striving, struggling part of ourselves with all our might, then nurturing and tending to our character becomes a natural expression of our love.
In Defense of Radical Self-Betterment
Gena Gorlin
Agreeing on what your values are is the kind of statement that needs maximum buy-in, so it should involve your whole company.
The Great CEO Within
Matt Mochary, Alex MacCaw, and Misha Talavera
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