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Why Nachos Aren't on the Menu
Or, how do you decide to expand your business to include a new product or service offering?
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Tara McMullin
14:43
How Structure Transforms Our Ideas
The way we structure our work can turn mere information into stories and wisdom.
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Tara McMullin
19:01
Process Entropy and Process Evolution
If you're waiting for the day your business, system, or process runs itself, you'll be waiting forever. Change happens—what we do with it is what…
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Tara McMullin
2
17:47
Making What Can't Be Sold
How do you turn a jumble of thoughts into a cohesive project?
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Tara McMullin
1
14:03
How A Syllabus Could Change The Way You Plan
Planners and project management apps reinforce linear, chronological thinking. What if we used a completely different medium to plan for growth?
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Tara McMullin
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Sean McMullin
5
24:19
Sell Out (With Me, Oh Yeah)
How do I make this work the most welcoming to the most people? asks George Saunders. It's a very good question.
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Tara McMullin
5
21:40
Standardize Me
Our identities have become a frontier for standardization (and profit). But standardization can also help us identify the ideas and information we're…
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Tara McMullin
22:05
How I Think
Why I take special care to illustrate the mental models I use to understand work and business—and how you can, too.
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Tara McMullin
18:50
How to Zig When Everyone Else Zags
How do you come up with novel (and effective) ways forward when the old strategies stop working?
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Tara McMullin
2
17:49
Making the Content Math Work
A few thoughts on the practical implications of content marketing's quid pro quo and making a living with digital media
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Tara McMullin
2
Quid Pro No Thank You
On debt, content marketing, and what we owe each other
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Tara McMullin
5
19:46
4 Red Flags That Signal Questionable Work "Opportunities"
Find out why I'm especially leery of jobs that require "highly motivated" candidates, offer "full-time contract positions," and employ doublespeak.
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Tara McMullin
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