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Malcolm Gladwell on “Revisionist History” and Pushkin Industries

The Next Chapter by American Express Business Class

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The Impossible Position of Hiring Nihilists

In one of your episodes of revisionist history, you talk about war games. And the point is that it's really hard to figure out what obstacles are going to emerge from just planning. I'm wondering how applicable that is beyond just war. Like, can you war game, you know, push it, for example? Can you sort of apply that to a company that you're a part of now? And is it worth it?

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