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...which still accounts for nearly all cell phone text messaging, has no formatting and a limit of 160 characters. Entering messages requires painstaking key pecking, and received messages can come out of order. Yet rather than dismiss it as backwards, most users see text messaging as a godsend and fail to appreciate it for the terrible rip-off it truly...
...late 19th century, the U.S. government told the Latter-Day Saints that the price of admission to a rich American future was the renunciation of polygamy. The official church and the vast majority of Mormons were happy to come along, but not these few. All these years later, words fail. Modernity comes speaking the language of women's rights, of the dignity and self-determination of children, of limits on the authority of fathers--and even on the authority of prophets. For people who have chosen to sit the last century out, this doesn't compute...
...innovation] process is that it's consistent, it's repeatable, and it's predictable. Innovation is a failure and risk-management game. If you're running a good innovation strategy and process, you have way more failures than successes. So what you want to do is fail early and fail fast and fail cheap...
...going to be an agile innovator or a contributing member of an agile innovation team. And then the last one is courage. I mean, there's a lot of uncertainty. Look at my industry, everyday household and personal-care products: 80% to 85% of the new ones fail...
Your nest egg doesn't have to suffer a similar fate. Any time turmoil strikes the market and your notional allies--in this case, banks and bond-rating agencies and bond insurers that are supposed to backstop you--fail in their duty and leave you, well, dogless, it's a good time to take a good look at what you own. In this sense, says Guy Cumbie, a financial planner in Fort Worth, Texas, "anything that stress-tests your portfolio and gets you to pay attention to the level of risk you are taking is a good thing...