If You're Struggling to Solve a Problem, You May Be Looking at Things Just 1% Wrong
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Working in, Working on, Working for the business
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AUGUST 16, 2022
In a previous blog post, I wrote about the differences between working "in" the business for strategy and innovation versus working "on" the business for strategy and innovation. This dichotomy is a somewhat classic way of thinking about how people spend their time - either "in" the business doing the day to day work that propels the company forward, or time spent "on" the business, thinking about how the business is positioned, its strategy, how it operates.
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