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“Breaking down silos can spark innovation in unexpected ways.” ― Gillian Tett The modern organization is a complex phenomenon – a construct that centers on ideas, an evolving template that gained expression from human thought processes – and a complicated, structured, legal entity that strives to perform dynamically in tune with impulses emanating in its…

“Remote management is not radically different from managing people on-site. The biggest difference is a shift in management style from “eyeball management” (assuming workers are being productive because you physically see them at their desks working) to managing by results.” — Phil Montero Human talent – that encompasses ingenuity, experience, knowledge, intuition, wisdom, and expertise…

“There’s also the “pre-mortem” – in which the team is told to assume a course of action has failed and to explain why—which makes team members feel safe to express doubts they may have about the leader’s plan. But the super-teams did not start with leaders and norms, which created other challenges.” ― Philip Tetlock…

“Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning.” – Nicholas Negroponte Digital technologies, systems, and frameworks – and their manifold articulations and applications – abound in contemporary landscapes. The domains of modern communications, education, trade and commerce, international relations, manufacturing, technology, science, design and engineering, and architecture represent avid users…

“We have to look at loan forgiveness to incentivize young people to pursue degrees in areas where we know we need help.” – Elizabeth Esty The commercial world and (a variety of) essentially material resources find multiple points of convergence that define key aspects of the contemporary economic, financial, industrial, and technological universe. These convergences…

“Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.” – William Durant Expansion, underpinned by strategy – in terms of scope, market footprint, profitability, and revenue numbers – is the key mantra that powers the animal spirits of modern entrepreneurs. In line with this, every operator of…

“If you quit on the process, you are quitting on the result.” ― Idowu Koyenikan Sequences of process – or ordered methods of activity that yield layers of planned outcomes – also known as workflows in modern parlance – represent interesting expressions of ingenuity that underlie organized human enterprise. These creations of the intellect have…

“Quality is the best business plan.” – John Lasseter The purely abstract retains a nuanced – and outsized – significance in the world of the material and the physical. For instance, the quality of a physical/virtual product represents an abstract element, a subjective assessment, perhaps – and yet quality impacts the commercial performance of a…

“The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user.” – C.A.R. Hoare Diagrams and illustrations – in various forms, motifs, and expressions – share millennia-long association with the human species. We may conjecture the earliest diagrams (or crude sketches) appeared when humans scratched by hand freeform images on…

“Email has an ability many channels don’t: creating valuable, personal touches — at scale.” – David Newman Electronic mail – also known as email – bears potential to create ceaseless opportunities for modern businesses. This form of contemporary communication finds deep resonance with marketing professionals, business managers, corporate strategists, and operators of startups owing to…