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Frameworks

PEST Analysis

Understanding the big picture can help reveal hidden opportunities and threats 1. Background In 1967, Harvard Professor Francis Aguilar wrote a book entitled “Scanning the Business Environment” in which he identified four important factors – Economic, Technical, Political, and Social – that a business can use to better understand the big picture. While the ordering […]

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Excellence

Essentialism – The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

Greg McKeown shares his revelation that success can lead to failure and why doing less can often mean getting more

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Economics

Understanding Intelligence

Understanding the mechanism that underlies intelligence could have big implications for economics, business and finance. The below TED Talk is worth watching.