How Economic Thinking Can Benefit Consumers, Managers, and Entrepreneurs | Part 5: Unicorns In Cubicle Farms
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Awareness of the Unicorn Problem helps to shine light on why it is that our aspirational good intentions to achieve outstanding results – in politics and in the workplace – so often differ widely from our capabilities and our profound disappointment in the actual results of our collective team efforts.
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