Widening Our Imagination

Widening Our Imagination

Practically Useless

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Mike Metzger
Mar 01, 2010
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“We love these values. They really work.” When vice presidents at AES, an energy company, praised the firm’s values, founders Dennis Bakke and Roger Sant turned pale. Bakke and Sant know what works might not be practical. In fact, practicality was historically a two-sided coin. Americans assume practicality is one-sided – what works. This however makes …

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