Nicely fits our current IBM narrative...
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“Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness.” - Malcolm Gladwell ("David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants")
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“The logic of the inverted-U curve is that the same strategies that work really well at first stop working past a certain point”
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“All progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
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“Outliers are those who have been given opportunities—and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.”
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“When we talk about analytic versus intuitive decision making, neither is good or bad. What is bad is if you use either of them in an inappropriate circumstance.”
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“The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.”