In a global economy that increasingly favors the Scary Smart and ruthlessly culls winners and losers, workplace intelligence becomes the next trillion-dollar industry.
Most services rely on their customers to rate service providers and tend to ruthlessly cull those drivers/doctors/plumbers/etc that fall below a rating threshold, often a fairly high bar.
There are any number of tools we can use for our work, however, Newport suggests you ruthlessly cull the ones you use down to only those whose positive impacts outweigh their downsides.
Test business models and ideas, and ruthlessly cull failures and move on to Plan B, Plan C, Plan D and so on — "pivoting," as the process is known.
Partly, this was because the auction house hadn't culled the offerings too ruthlessly, so that along with the big-ticket stuff there were plenty of things--kitschy picture frames, shelves of worn books--still tremulous with domestic life.
His starting point is General George Marshall, the Army chief of staff during the Second World War, who culled underperforming generals and promoted the better ones, constructing a ruthlessly efficient fighting force.
British athletics' new policy of focusing ruthlessly on Olympic contenders and "not rewarding past success" was evident on Monday as it culled five former world championship medallists from the Lottery funding programme.
Dissenters and the uncommitted have been culled.
