I wanna be "I-Shaped"


	I wanna be "I-Shaped"

bloomoon

7-16-2009 5:37 AM

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bloomoon says:

What a great concept--on thinking about it, my friends are all I people! And it has nothing to do with Apple...

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There may be no "I" in team, but every team needs to be made up of "I-shaped" people.
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