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Follow your brain on simple decisions. Listen to your heart on more complex decisions.
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…the most critical characteristic that leaders should look for in selecting people is potential, ‘the ability to adapt to and grow into increasingly complex roles and environments.’
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…as knowledge work makes more complex demands of the labor force, it becomes harder to measure the value of an individual’s efforts.
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Even when there is no ironclad right way to do things, checklists can help people avoid blind spots in a complex environment.
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Hedgehogs… simplify a complex world into a single organizing idea, a basic principle or concept that unifies and guides everything.
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Continuous delivery is a good example of an advanced delivery technique… in teams that understand the importance of a series of small, incremental changes to a complex system.
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The right amount of complexity is whatever creates optimal simplicity.
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The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks and then starting on the first one. – Mark Twain
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…prioritization of abstract written communication over in-person communication disregarded the immensely complex and finely tuned social circuits that our species evolved to optimize our ability to work cooperatively.
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…email is not a universal form of interaction… it is instead an impoverished simulacrum of the types of complex and nuanced behaviors that… defined our communications…
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