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“A Company hires people to do things.
A Company hires people to manage things.
Smart People pay people who manage to do the important well.”

This Twitter tweet-sized tidbit from the Human Gravity on the substance of work is worthy of a short post of its own.

It has a ring to it.

As the author I allow you the right to replace “Company” with anything from this…

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I find the fascination and preoccupation with the disappearance Malaysian Airlines flight 370 enlightening and disturbing. It is indeed unsettling that the unexpected is normal in the real world.

This morning there were over 800 million references to the “Malaysian Airlines flight 370” search on Google.
Bing only found 24 million matches. Perhaps at Bing they are more picky…

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Our Shared Expectation magnifies and even creates our “common” problems. This extremely disquieting reality is built into the underlying mechanics of how the human brain works. The truth be told, we cannot even consider this prospect for very long. For us is not about consideration anyway.

The Intricate Why?  

You are a body in constant motion. This human music of the…

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We build innovative content for AutoCAD Civil 3D. It ends up in some interesting places.

I enjoy talking to people and hearing about the real work they are doing with our Production Solutions products. We have customers in every state of the Union and a lot of other strange places. These cover a wide range of organizations that want Civil 3D templates and Civil 3D style…

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The football season is back. So is the federal budget debacle after a digression.

We all get to play Fantasy Football whether we like it or not.

The fantasy that a well-educated and skilled manager and his staff can invent inside a financial spreadsheet is truly a terrible thing.
I'm a manager. I'm a business person. I've done it myself and done it to myself more than once.…

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