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I worked with Arthur C. Clarke at the very beginning of my career. He’s most famous for saying, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”…

Do you see the defaults? The question, “What are things like around here?” has two possible answers. When a new idea or opportunity arrives, your organization…

Every founder, leader, sales rep and person on a dating app has heard this. “Bring me the broomstick!” Why did the Wizard ask Dorothy to bring…

The opposite of ‘perfect’ | Seth’s Blog It’s not junk. No, the opposite of perfect is: Meets spec Useful On time Productive Valuable By definition, good…

Optimizing a device or system means squeezing every drop of productivity out of it. In the short-run, optimization works as long as the world stays the…

Find the others: Worldwide Strategy Meetups | Seth’s Blog On October 22, around the world, I’m helping to organize hundreds of in-person get togethers. A chance…

Twenty questions | Seth’s Blog Your next project might feel like a calling, but it’s a choice. A choice that will have an impact on each…

Discovery and invention | Seth’s Blog Isaac Newton didn’t invent gravity. It was there all along. He simply named and explained it. The same is true…

Emotional enrollment is at the heart of performance, learning and connection. A coach can quickly tell when someone is committed to changing their approach in order…

Residents leave a town because of a lack of services, which cuts the tax base, which leads to more services lost, which leads to more residents…