Bottlenecks

An essential feature of every bottle is the neck. No neck, no bottle. There are bottlenecks in every process, every project and every method. Something is limited. We can pretend that’s not the case and avoid the discussion. Or we can see it as an opportunity. Successful organizations are good at embracing and working with

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1981 time machine

If you went back 45 years, the built world would be eerily similar–the clothes, the cars, even the haircuts. Except you’d quickly notice that there were no personal computers and no smart phones. That for seven or ten hours a day, every day, people were interacting in real life, not with their screens. Many of

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Which kind of ‘enough’?

If you buy an Ikea table, you’ll need 8 bolts to put it together. 7 is not enough. This is functional sort of ‘enough.’ It can be critical to our survival. “I have enough medication to last through this illness.” “We have enough food to feed our family.” But this isn’t the stress that we

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Library fatigue

Perhaps this has happened to you: You’re at the reference desk of the library, with the answer to any question available–and you can’t think of anything to ask. And there’s the vegetable blindness that occurs at a really good farmer’s market. After a few stalls, it’s hard to imagine what to cook. Shortly after high-speed

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