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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VI: Every World War II.

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All the radar operator would see was noise, rather than airplanes. And in hindsight, we seemed a bit more agile and innovative in WWII.) Yet decades later the military lacked the agility to write a spec in two years, let alone get 10′s of thousands of new systems deployed on aircraft as Terman had done.

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The Very Best Digital Metrics For 15 Different Companies!

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The very best analysts are comfortable operating with ambiguity and incompleteness, while all others chase perfection in implementation / processing / reports. The challenge I want to take on is to be specific in the recommendations make, and to share how we can be very nimble and agile. We have to really get good at this. Evaluate.

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