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One of the major barriers to productive thinking is the almost compulsive drive in most business organizations to be right.

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Training, as practiced in much of corporate America, is an astonishing waste of resources.

Preliminary ideas are often weak and impure, and need to be driven through a forge in order to become powerful, workable solutions.

If things weren't messy, or getting messy, there would be no discontent, and you wouldn't need productive thinking in the first place.

The only dumb idea is, quite literally, the one that is unspoken.

Unless a potential future incorporates a powerful emotional pull, it will have great difficulty overcoming the gravitational pull of the past.

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