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Kinston’s & Algie’s guide on how managers can approach decisions

August 22nd, 2008 · 3 Comments

For Friday, here’s “Seven Distinct Paths of Decision and Action” by Warren Kinston and Jimmy Algie from 1989. This paper describes the seven different approaches to decision-making, but note that it’s really about action.

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Genius Requires Hard Work, Too

February 24th, 2006 · No Comments

Ernest Rutherford

For all his success, Rutherford was not an especially brilliant man and was actually pretty terrible at mathematics. Often during lectures he would get so lost in his own equations that he would give up halfway through and tell the students to work it out for themselves. According to his longtime colleague James Chadwick, [...]

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