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“Unfortunately, the world has given us so many bad messages about the speed of success,” Ron Carucci told me one summer afternoon. “We’ve all heard the cliché about, ‘It takes ten years to be an overnight sensation,’ but it really does. But we actually don’t believe it. We think, ‘No, but there are shortcuts.’ And when we see people who actually look like they’re getting shortcuts, we just want it.”
Ron is one of the people that others may accuse of being an overnight success. The head of a boutique consulting firm, within the span of a few years he began writing regularly for Harvard Business Review and Forbes; gave not one but two TEDx talks, one of which has been viewed more than one hundred thousand times; and gave an ...
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