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FaceTime with the Content Guy:  Jar Jar Binks Syndrome 

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I’d never encountered this before, but I heard a reference the other day to the Jar Jar Binks syndrome in management.  But it isn’t what you may think.  It certainly wasn’t what I thought.  But it is a good business lesson.

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