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Sprints Are the Secret to Getting More Done

Harvard Business Review

For podcast startup Gimlet Media , an abstract question — “Should we become a technology company?” Business-as-usual decision-making is busted: we strive for consensus; we don’t make tough calls; we aren’t transparent about how choices are made. Sprints encourage fast follow-up.

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The New New International Economic Order

Harvard Business Review

All this represents a considerable turn away from anything resembling a Washington Consensus and towards a more highly managed system favoring preferential terms for developing countries and redistribution over competition and efficiency. This convergence hypothesis is reassuring on many fronts.