Jul 28, 2021

Disruption. Hiring, hypotheses, the alphabet.

By Mary Trigiani • Issue #998 • View online

At the same time we are using tools invented thousands of years ago, we are tasked with disrupting practices that, if they ever worked, are way past their due dates. Making a renaissance requires wisdom.

The Origin of the English Alphabet (and all its 26 letters)

The early alphabetic writing started about four thousand years ago. According to many scholars, it was in Egypt that alphabetic writing developed between 1800 and 1900 BC. The origin was a Proto-Sinaitic (Proto-Canaanite) form of writing that was not very well known.

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Q&A with Tracie Powell on disrupting philanthropy, organizational culture, and challenges to the journalism industry - Local Media Association

Hiring managers too often take shortcuts when it comes to diversity. It’s lazy and ineffective. They interview a couple of “acceptable” BIPOC candidates who are referred to them, perhaps, by another acceptable person of color, and they check it off their list, not really taking the BIPOC candidates as serious considerations. It’s past time to treat hiring, recruitment and retention more seriously.

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A founding vision for a startup  is similar to a scientific hypothesis

At the start of any new business idea, your risk and uncertainty is at its highest, you really have no idea if it will have any traction in the market or if anyone is willing to buy your product or service. It’s your job as an entrepreneur to make the risk explicit by breaking your big business idea down into smaller, testable hypotheses.

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