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An early lesson I learned in my career was that whenever a large organization attempts to do anything, it always comes down to a single person who can delay the entire project.
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz
Hurrying also has this insidious way of blinding us from seeing the broader context, by obscuring new possibilities, discouraging us from considering other options.
Humble Inquiry
Edgar H. Schein and Peter A. Schein
The problem is that the very brain mechanisms which succeed in simplifying the world so as to subject it to our control militate against a true understanding of it. Meanwhile, compounding the problem, we take the success we have in manipulating it as proof that we understand it. But that is a logical error: to exert power over something requires us only to know what happens when we pull the levers, press the button, or utter the spell. The fallacy is memorialised in the myth of the sorcerer’s apprentice.
The Matter With Things
Iain McGilchrist
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