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Human Wind-up Toys

Posted by: Nancy Raulston on: May 25, 2011

Remember those wind-up toys we had as kids? You would wind the key and set them down and they would do whatever strange behavior they had been designed to do (a set up chattering false teeth comes to mind). They could flip upside down or run into a wall and it made no difference — [...]

Doing Just To Be Doing

Posted by: Nancy Raulston on: April 5, 2011

Are you a “to do” list person? Do you feel better once you have a plan and a timeline and a set of “deliverables”? Many of us do. Business, in general, is biased towards having and managing against a plan. Certainly, in order to align a team or a company, it is important to have [...]

Be Smarter Than an Amoeba

Posted by: Nancy Raulston on: February 28, 2011

A friend told me that if you poke an amoeba with a pin it will immediately freeze, stop moving. When the danger seems to have past, it will begin moving again. But if you poke it continually it will eventually stop moving altogether and die off. OK, I would hope we are all “smarter” than [...]

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