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When you adopt a tool you adopt the management philosophy embedded in that tool.

Clay Shirky

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Clay Shirky
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
Academic
Scientist
Technology Evangelist
Writer
Columbia
Missouri
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Management
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Philosophy

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