Project Oxygen initially set out to prove that managers don’t matter and ended up demonstrating that good managers were crucial. Project Gifted Youngsters was targeted at explaining what people who sustain the highest performance for long periods of time do differently from everyone else. They explored the top 4 percent compared to the other 96 percent, then dug into the top 0.5 percent versus the other 99.5 percent. The Honeydew Enterprise (named for Bunsen Honeydew, the intrepid innovator from the Muppets) strove to understand the behaviors and practices that most foster and inhibit
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