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Leadership and Straight Talk

You're Not the Boss of Me

I suspect most of them have something to do with internal politics, bureaucracy, or perhaps a belief that the more complicated or obscure the language, the more important the message. Taking the hammer out of the communication toolbox allows for more open and meaningful conversation. There are probably a lot of reasons for this.

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Straight Talk

You're Not the Boss of Me

I suspect most of them have something to do with internal politics, bureaucracy, or perhaps a belief that the more complicated or obscure the language, the more important the message. Taking the hammer out of the communication toolbox allows for more open and meaningful conversation. There are probably a lot of reasons for this.

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Big-Project Engineers Have to Deal with Too Much Red Tape

Harvard Business Review

Nineteen days later, as rescue crews grew desperate, a 24-year-old field engineer named Igor Proestakis decided to travel to the site with what he hoped was a breakthrough idea: using a particular drilling technology, called cluster hammers, to cut through the collapsed rock.