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Masterly Inactivity Versus Micromanaging

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

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What You Mean Do Nothing?

Britain had appointed as india's governor general a man called john lawrence. He had his own views on the afghans i am, for letting them alone to adjust to their own affairs. But that didn't mean indifference, as some critics assumed. It's a challenge for doctors to practise masterly inactivity. And the canadian physician francois ma explains why.

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