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Yesterday’s topic of self-selecting filters prompted me to write about listening to customers…
When I’m working on a group project and we get cranky, I show this video. People always ask, "Is this real?" It’s not funny unless it happened. But they always [...]

Spent two hours this past Tuesday listening to various student presentations in my Project Management class final.
A couple of highlights:

Our group went first (random draw). I started us off with a 30-second intro retelling the advice of a friend: “Good judgement comes from experience… And experience comes from bad judgement.” Delivered properly, it normally draws [...]

Last fall, when I was briefly contemplating graduating this spring and pursuing an accelerated 1-year MBA, I had the wonderful chance to call up a few older and wiser people I know and get their advice. While the advice was a rather resounding no (for good reasons), I also received some wonderful advice about education, [...]