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Steve

The Curse of Knowledge Can Derail Innovation

I heard a story on the Manager Tools podcast that stuck with me. In the late ‘70s the chairman of Sony Corp., Akio Morita, noticed a lot of young people walking around carrying a boom box on their shoulder during a visit to New York City. He immediately thought to

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Steve

The unseating of Sears

After buying our first home in 2000, my wife and I spent many weekends shopping at The Great Indoors, a home décor chain founded by Sears in 1997. One of our early purchases was a Kenmore canister vacuum cleaner. For more than a decade until the retail chain became defunct

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What was the name of that wine?

Have you ever enjoyed a bottle of wine at a restaurant and then, days or weeks later, could not recall the wine’s name? On occasion, to improve the odds of recalling the wine, I’ll either take a picture of the bottle with my phone, scrawl the wine’s name and year

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