http://www.skmurphy.com/blog/2007/08/14/paul-saffo-at-churchill-club-breakfast-tue-aug-28/ Startups, Entrepreneurs, and Consultants Thu, 8 Jan 2009 13:40:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 http://www.skmurphy.com/blog/2007/08/14/paul-saffo-at-churchill-club-breakfast-tue-aug-28/#comment-23821 Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:57:12 +0000 http://www.skmurphy.com/blog/2007/08/14/paul-saffo-at-churchill-club-breakfast-tue-aug-28/#comment-23821 [...] Paul Saffo came to the Churchill Club for breakfast and went beyond his HBR article “Six Rules for Effective Forecasting” to address forecasting innovation in the context of Silicon Valley. Currently on sabbatical from his day job at the Institute for the Future and teaching at Stanford, Saffo quipped that a well executed sabbatical required the same commitment as entering the federal witness protection program if you really wanted to get something new done: “you have to change your e-mail, your phone number, and never set foot in the office until you are ready to come back to work full time.” [...] […] Paul Saffo came to the Churchill Club for breakfast and went beyond his HBR article “Six Rules for Effective Forecasting” to address forecasting innovation in the context of Silicon Valley. Currently on sabbatical from his day job at the Institute for the Future and teaching at Stanford, Saffo quipped that a well executed sabbatical required the same commitment as entering the federal witness protection program if you really wanted to get something new done: “you have to change your e-mail, your phone number, and never set foot in the office until you are ready to come back to work full time.” […]

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