Episode 02 - Picture of a Boat

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Episode Description

Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin formulate a five-minute warning tactic before discussing the reality of bringing change to your company, some patterns that work for startups, solving the right problem at the right level, why you can't find the innovation button, and using PathFinder as a Finder replacement.

Episode Information

Initially Released January 25, 2011

Runtime 1:08:42

Episode Page Picture of a Boat

Recurring Topics and Characters

The Right Problem at the Right Level for the Right Reason

Discussion

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Quotes

So you wanna change everything at work; you're like Leave-a-Sign-by-the-Coffee-Maker-Guy. Well, are you really going to change everybody? Because I think that's out of scope.
-Merlin Mann

If you don't have the scope and the interest and the buy-in, if you like, to change a giant thing, you're an idiot for trying to change it.
-Merlin Mann

A phenomenon that I am really aware of is that whenever you talk in the abstract - in the generic - to a large group of people - it doesn't matter how big the group of people is - every single person thinks you're talking to them. When you talk on the Internet, when you put up a sign, every single person thinks you're talking to them.
-Merlin Mann

You didn't go in and talk to the one guy who burns popcorn. You put up some sign just because that made you feel better from an emotional standpoint. You didn't think about the problem and the level and the reason. And that happens so often that I think it's an anti-pattern.
-Merlin Mann

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