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Don't Push the Fish!

Yes, I realize that's probably the strangest title for a business-related blog post that you've ever read (or that I've ever written).  You'll see the relevance by the end of this article - I promise. During my years as a Computer Science undergrad at Clemson University (go Tigers!), I was taking a class on algorithms when the following statement (paraphrased) was made:  a well-designed algorithm will always trump computing power (assuming, of course, there isn't a huge difference between the CPU speed on the former versus the latter).  This means that you could have a slower CPU but with a better algorithm it would always outperform the faster CPU when various benchmarks were run on both processors.  In business, a similar concept exists:  you can have the best technology, but it's the company with the best "everything else" that will always win. What is the "everything else," you ask?  Taking a page from the Organizational Change Manage