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Do You Read Business Books for Confirmation?

August 27th, 2009 Leave a comment Go to comments

Seth Godin has a great little article on the scientific method.  It is easy to slip into a defensive mode in our lives and businesses where we are just trying to maintain the status quot rather than ask “does this really work?”

I hope you find the following quote as challenging as I did:

Some people read business books looking for confirmation. I read them in search of disquiet. Confirmation is cheap, easy and ineffective. Restlessness and the scientific method, on the other hand, create a culture of testing and inquiry that can’t help but push you forward.

Read the whole post.

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