Chapter Ten
Buy (Thinking) Time with Buffers
Case Studies: Harald Krueger, BMW • Eric Yuan, Zoom Video Communications • Colin Powell • Ronald Hall • Andy Kessler, Wall Street Journal
Tempus fugit1
Virgil, 29 b.c.e.
In Las Vegas, 8-1 odds would be considered an excellent bet. Similarly, the eight benefits you saw in the previous chapter provided by a one- or two-Key Word Buffer is an excellent return on your invested energy. You can enhance one of the eight, thinking time, by adding more words to a Buffer that will buy you even more thinking time. The way to do this is to precede the Key Word(s) with a Paraphrase.
■ Paraphrase ■
The dictionary describes “para” as a prefix indicating adjacent, near, alongside, parallel, or beyond. The prefixes ...
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