PLANNER GONE ROGUE

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I QUIT MY JOB

I’ve been a surgeon for eight years. For the past couple of them, my performance in the operating room has reached a plateau. I’d like to think it’s a good thing -- I’ve arrived at my professional peak. But mainly it seems as if I’ve just stopped getting better.

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Atul Gwande“Coaching a Surgeon: What Makes Top Performers Better”

Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine? If you are lucky enough to find your way to such teachers, you will always find your way back.

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Mitch AlbomTuesdays with Morrie

If you are lucky enough to have somebody who will pay a lot of attention to you, then great, more power to you. But to search for their magic? I’m just not buying it.

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Seth GodinQuoted in Uncertainty

THE EARLY ADOPTERS

So let me get this straight... you want to invite your 6 ft tall, blond, single friend who you met on the internet to stay with us in our house?

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Meredith Oke

FIGURE OUT WHAT I NEED TO LEARN

WHAT I KNOW ABOUT PLANNING

WORK FROM YOUR STRENGTHS

LIKE PAULA ABDUL SAYS: MAKE IT YOUR OWN

YOU DON’T HAVE TO DECIDE UNTIL YOU HAVE TO DECIDE

FIND A WAY TO BE GENEROUS

A GIFT = TO GIVE, TO RECEIVE, TO RECIPROCATE

2008: 461 2008: 73

2008: 38

2008: 5

2008: 461 2008: 73

2008: 38

2008: 5

2009: 104 2009: 532

2009: 220

2009: 9

2008: 461 2008: 73

2008: 38

2008: 5

2009: 104 2009: 532

2009: 220

2009: 9

2010: 156 2010: 682

2010: 249

2010: 12

2008: 461 2008: 73

2008: 38

2008: 5

2009: 104 2009: 532

2009: 220

2009: 9

2010: 156 2010: 682

2010: 249

2010: 122011: 909 2011: 227

2011: 255

2011: 23

PLANNER PEN PALS

COUCH SURFING FOR PLANNERS

INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE

ONE MORE GENEROUS PROJECT

@juniorstrategy juniorstrategy.com

PRINCIPLES OVER PROCESS

THE DRAMA OF CRITICAL THINKING IS OUR PROCESS.

TAKE IN A BUNCH OF INPUTS FROM A VARIETY OF SOURCES.

ASK A BUNCH OF QUESTIONS NO ONE HAS BOTHERED TO ASK.

HYPOTHESIZE SOLUTIONS.

CRAFT A STORY TO HELP PEOPLE EMBRACE THE IDEAS.

SEEK INPUTS FROM EVERYWHERE

FOR IDEAS PEOPLE, WE LOOK AT SURPRISINGLY FEW INFLUENCES

SOME PEOPLE COLLECT DOLLS...

EVERYTHING WE NEED TO KNOW, WE LEARN THROUGH OTHER PEOPLE

NEVER STOP LEARNING

CANADIANS DON’T LOCK THEIR DOORS

IMPOSTER SYNDROME MAY BE A BIG DEAL

The machine had been invented a few years ago: a machine that could tell, from just a sample of your blood, how you were going to die. It didn’t give you the date and it didn’t give you the specifics. It just spat out a sliver of paper on which were printed, in careful block letters, the words DROWNED or CANCER or OLD AGE or CHOKED ON A HANDFUL OF POPCORN. It let people know how they were going to die.“

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I’M GOING TO LEARN A LOT ABOUT PUBLISHING

TITLES AND PROJECTS PROLIFERATE

“IN THE LAND OF THE ONE-EYED MONSTERS, CLOSE ONE EYE”

THE VAMPIRE OF INTERESTINGNESS

SPINNING PLATES

WHAT TO DO, WHERE TO LIVE, WHO TO LOVE

SHAKING THE TREE OF CHANCE

I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE RETHINKING EVERYTHING

SHOP THE WORLD, STEAL FROM THE BEST

JASON’S TALE OF TWO ROBOTS

DAVE LAVERY OF NASA

ROBBIE

COLIN ANGLE, THE INTERN

MEET TOOTH

One of the interesting things that we’ve noticed is that companies correlate on decision making and speed of decision making. There are basically no companies that have good slow decisions. There are only companies that have good fast decisions. I think that’s also a natural thing as companies get bigger -- they tend to slow down decision making. And that’s pretty tragic.

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LARRY PAGECEO OF GOOGLE

COLIN POWEL 40-70 RULE

TIM HARFORD ECONOMIST

The big problems are these sorts that only ever get solved by trial and error, so when they are being solved, they are being solved through experimentation, which is often a bottom-up process. When they are not being solved it is because we are not willing to experiment, or to use trial and error.

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COLIN NOW

WORK FROM YOUR STRENGTHS

NEVER STOP LEARNING

YOU DON’T HAVE TO DECIDE UNTIL YOU HAVE TO DECIDE

FIND A WAY TO BE GENEROUS

SEEK INPUTS FROM EVERYWHERE

PRINCIPLES OVER PROCESS

WORK FROM YOUR STRENGTHS

NEVER STOP LEARNING

YOU DON’T HAVE TO DECIDE UNTIL YOU HAVE TO DECIDE

FIND A WAY TO BE GENEROUS

SEEK INPUTS FROM EVERYWHERE

PRINCIPLES OVER PROCESS

PLEASE SUGGEST BOOK TITLES

WORK FROM YOUR STRENGTHS

NEVER STOP LEARNING

YOU DON’T HAVE TO DECIDE UNTIL YOU HAVE TO DECIDE

FIND A WAY TO BE GENEROUS

SEEK INPUTS FROM EVERYWHERE

PRINCIPLES OVER PROCESS

PLEASE SUGGEST BOOK TITLES

PLEASE TAKE THE SURVEY

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