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Unintended Consequences

Unintended, but not Unanticipated Consequences

Jim Schreier Jun 14, 2019

The concept “unanticipated consequences,” coined by Robert K. Merton (1936), has largely been replaced in current …

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Perspectives on the Long Term

Jim Schreier Jun 12, 2019

What will it take to shift markets and companies away from a short-term way of thinking? …

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Downton Abby

Downton Abby

Jim Schreier Jun 11, 2019

The “incomparable” Maggie Smith: “What happens then?”

Unintended Consequences

Unintended Consequences

Jim Schreier Jun 11, 2019

I had the wonderful opportunity to meet Lisa Scottoline at a book event 2014.  She is …

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Civil War Boundary in U.S. Affects Trade to This Day

Jim Schreier Jun 9, 2019

How interesting that my long term interest in the Civil War connects in this find with …

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Black Mirror

Black Mirror

Jim Schreier Jun 8, 2019

Black Mirror, which originally ran on the British Channel 4 before it was purchased by Netflix …

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Future

“No one will thank you for taking care of the present if you have neglected the future.”

— Joel Barker

Future

“No one will thank you for taking care of the present if you have neglected the future.”

— Joel Barker

Learning

That’s what learning is, after all, not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.

— Richard Bach

Learning

That’s what learning is, after all, not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.

— Richard Bach

Thinking

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking that created them.

— Albert Einstein

Thinking

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking that created them.

— Albert Einstein

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