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How Economic Thinking Can Benefit Consumers, Managers, and Entrepreneurs (Part 8)Barry L. Linetsky, 2019

How Economic Thinking Can Benefit Consumers, Managers, and Entrepreneurs | Part 8: The Solution Is In How We Solve Problems

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A technique to improving managerial performance when planning is to take into account the second and third-order consequences and implications of one’s actions across an expanding time period. The farther out one is able to project and consider, the better.
How Economic Thinking Can Benefit Consumers, Managers, and Entrepreneurs (Part 2)Barry L. Linetsky, 2019

How Economic Thinking Can Benefit Consumers, Managers, and Entrepreneurs | Part 2: Progress Is Not A Foregone Conclusion

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An irony of launching ourselves into actions to remove obstacles to our well-being is that often the decisions and actions we take actually lead us in the opposite direction.