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Apr 2022
7m 12s

The World of Inflexibility is Over

RICARDO VIANA VARGAS
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In this week's episode, Ricardo talks about flexibility and inflexibility when planning something. We often have the mindset of planning, executing, and controlling something so that it must go exactly as planned. Any variation in the plan is bad and should be avoided, this is inflexibility, and all we don't have today is predictability, showing that the wo ... Show More
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