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Twitter started as a hunch. Are you trusting yours? [w/ video]

March 30th, 2009 · 5 Comments · teams

At the end of this post is a great video of Evan Williams, CEO of Twitter, talking about how it all started out as a hunch.  I’ll bet you’re working on something right now that might have a breakthrough if you tried out one of your hunches.  Here’s my hunch story and then the video [...]

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Beware positive thinking

January 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment · meetings, teams

Many of us have been schooled to “stay positive!” Ultimately I think there is a grain of wisdom in this, but it can also blind us. Sometimes we need to address important risks or vulnerabilities. In a group setting, if you insist on only focusing on the positive, you can also lose credibility with people [...]

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