December 16, 2009
The annual budgeting process for large public companies is crazy. Literally. It’s an exercise in kool-aid drinking minus the charismatic leader. It typically ends with a bunch of otherwise smart people jointly deciding on a P&L for their business that has a very loose connection to reality. Each person knows that this is so. But […]
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December 16, 2009
You don’t really control anything. And if you’re a person that badly needs to control things then you have a very frustrating life. Unless you’re very good at deluding yourself. The world is a scary place. There are sharks. Tornadoes. Worms in apples. It is profoundly uncomfortable for most people to feel entirely at the […]
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