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Re:Cargo Cult Management on Sunday June 21, 2009 @05:25PM (#667827)
I'm not attacking the suits, just managers who lack intellectual honesty and the appreciation for the difference between causation and correlation.
In hindsight...

"Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html

Well said.
Re:Diversification = Mediocrity. on Friday May 08, 2009 @07:59PM (#600495)
The current economic mess is an example of too little focus...
Re:Social networking is underhyped. on Saturday November 01, 2008 @06:10PM (#350932)
To extend your argument, you make money on it the same way as you do for those things that have been around forever. For jobs and dating, listing fees. For search, search marketing. And using the social graph to better target ads should increase CPMs by much more than content-based targeting.

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