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Mar 2025
49m 48s

When To Pivot

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam
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When should you stay the course in life, and when should you shift with changing tides? This week, we bring you case studies from the world of business to explore the science of inflection points — changes that dramatically transform the course of events. Researcher Rita McGrath explains why we fail to see impending moments of upheaval, and what we can do to ... Show More
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