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Feelings, the thinking goes, are not easily managed and can muck up the stable reliability of the system more than help.

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People who create successful dual systems center the creation of great urgency around opportunity, not vision…

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A lack of clarity will always, at some point, undermine the development of a dual system, as people rush off in nonaligned directions.

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As the world moves faster and faster, the more firms create dual operating systems, it is hard to believe that this pattern won’t be forced to change significantly.

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The purpose of this exercise is to show that there is a process, a system if you will, involved in building a network.

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Our identities are open systems, and so are our lives. We don’t have to stay tethered to old images of where we want to go or who we want to be.

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Alert organizations find clever ways to widen their net without wrecking the careful checks and balances involved in a conventional hiring system.

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…as organizations get bigger, the outer edges of their scouting systems need to be as lean, comprehensive, and efficient as possible.

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We need to do the work and make the sacrifices required to change the systems that pit us against each other and build new ones that inspire us to help each other.

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When the system works as designed, we stay well fed, get our work done and make progress. What’s more, we are better able to support and provide for those in our family and tribe.

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