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The Art of Action by Stephen Bungay

The Lost Book of Sales

Clausewitz (Carl von Clausewitz, a Prussian general) believed that friction was as inherent to war as it is to mechanical engineering and could therefore never be eliminated but only mitigated. It involves abandoning the linear model of developing a strategic plan and then implementing it.

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12 (Human) AI Influencers You Need to Know

Salesforce

With a degree in mechanical engineering from MIT, she’s as comfortable getting into the weeds as she is writing about the human aspects of technological progress, the poor treatment of African data annotators, and the outsized water consumption of AI data centers.

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12 (Human) AI Influencers You Need to Know

Salesforce

With a degree in mechanical engineering from MIT, she’s as comfortable getting into the weeds as she is writing about the human aspects of technological progress, the poor treatment of African data annotators, and the outsized water consumption of AI data centers.