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There is one thing worse than not doing research, and that is doing research and not changing anything in response to it.<\/p>\n

— Terry Lahey, Management in 10 Words<\/em><\/a>, p. 252<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is one thing worse than not doing research, and that is doing research and not changing anything in response to it. — Terry Lahey, Management in 10 Words, p. 252<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,10,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-business-2","category-cs","category-quotes","post_format-post-format-aside","wpautop"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3sddF-4W","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1204,"url":"https:\/\/www.jsylvest.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/why-we-worry-about-the-ethics-of-machine-intelligence\/","url_meta":{"origin":306,"position":0},"title":"Why we worry about the Ethics of Machine Intelligence","author":"jsylvest","date":"23 March 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"This essay was co-authored by myself and\u00a0Steve Mills. 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