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Nir And Far: Business, Behaviour and the Brain

Three Steps to Get Up To Speed On Any Subject Quickly - Nir&Far

Dec 18, 2017
10:01

“Don’t boil the ocean,” Terry said as he slapped a tall stack of papers on my desk. “Just tell us what we need to know.”

 I was staring at a serious problem. To help our firm win a multimillion-dollar consulting contract, I had five days to tell my new boss everything there was to know about airline bankruptcies. Problem was, I didn’t know the first thing about airline bankruptcies.

 I barely knew the first thing about anything. It was my first month of my first job out of college, and I had no idea how I—a 23-year-old with zero existing insights on the industry—was going to tell a senior partner anything that wasn’t going to get me fired.

You can read the Nir and Far blog post on:Three Steps to Get Up to Speed on Any Subject Quickly https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nirandfar/support

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