Idea Surplus Disorder #76
In this week's edition: thinking bigger, higher ceilings, questing, consensus, dramadoodles, pretzels, penguins, and more.
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In this week's edition: a wonderful selling question, how to think about your organization's "work to do the work," a gentle way to keep devil's advocates from poisoning new work, and a bunch more cool stuff I found last week.
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