Daniel Goleman’s talk at Google on managing your attention to achieve results based on his latest book Focus: the hidden driver of excellence. Lots of very valid points, which we also find to be true in the fate of companies across industries.
On the roughness of the world as being the opposite of regularity, explained in clear terms. Mandelbrot has always been an excellent stimulant for new perspectives in our thinking. The impossibility to measure in a completely accurate way the surface of lungs or the length of a coastline speaks volumes about the need to use metrics with care, especially in a hyper-quantitative and ROI driven world.
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