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Peter Thiel on the Power of Counterintuitive Thinking

September 12, 2014

Briefly, intuition is the ability to acquire knowledge without inference or the use of reason. The word intuition comes from Latin verb intueri which is usually translated as to look inside or to contemplate. Intuition is thus often conceived as…

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Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work

September 9, 2014

I have read and reviewed Liz Wiseman’s previously published books — notably Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter and The Multiplier Effect: Tapping the Genius Inside Our Schools — and am now reading Rookie Smarts, published by HarperBusiness (October 2014). In it,…

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Peter Thiel’s Extreme Philosophy of Focus and Prioritization

January 25, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Walter Chen and featured in an issue of BusinessInsider. To read the complete article, please click here. Photo: Suzie Katz via Flickr * * * “What are your top five…

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Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century

September 29, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Thomas H. Davenport and D.J. Patil for the Harvard Business Review. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. Artwork:…

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