"I like the principle of trusting your instincts - don't sweat the small stuff too much, " she says.
Mr. Colgan, who says he used to spend "too much time sweating the small stuff, " also learned how to delegate effectively.
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But we don't sweat the small stuff on Stephanomics - except, perhaps, the small fact that today's programme was the last of the current series.
This is admittedly small stuff compared with tiny computers and targeted drug delivery, but it demonstrates how companies that master the technology will be able to produce an endless array of innovative products.
But oh, the things she's seen on my end: the excuse-making, the nightgown under the trench coat to drive the car pool, the panic every time I see a gray hair--and that's just the small stuff.
In fact, if you make good prudent decisions about the big things like what you drive and where you live, it actually leaves a lot of flexibility to not need to sweat the small stuff at all.
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Having small cool stuff is, well, cool in a small manner.
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And for Google, the most data-driven company in the world, having newspapers articles in its search system is no more than small cool stuff.
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What interests me here is the idea that small amounts of stuff, with the right algorithm, can unfold into something large and wonderful.
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But as a single person with two small dogs and not a lot of stuff, a three-bedroom house is big.
Although Super Blue Stuff is sold in 365 small independent stores and through a 200-person direct-sales force, a majority of its sales come over the toll-free line McClung broadcasts on his infomercials.
But it takes hundreds of thousands of pounds of the stuff to hold together even a small city--most of it laboriously buried beneath the streets.
There is more good stuff on the way, like a new small pickup in another year.
Tricky stuff all round, not to mention the small issue of where OPEC stands in the entire monopoly debate.
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Being able to make a lot more stuff with fewer workers meant that even a small country could be a giant economic power.
There is more good stuff on the way, such as a new small pickup in a year.
While open-source e-mail and calendaring software, such as Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail software and the Lightning calendaring plug in, is good stuff, it's not easy for a small office to set up messaging software of any kind without a bit of professional help, unless you're an office full of techies.
Nonetheless, you get the gist: Small businesses seem more concerned about customers not being their to buy their stuff than they are about lower tax rates.
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Up front is a sprawling deli counter of meats and cheeses, freshly baked bread, and imported oils and vinegars, as well as a small bar that houses orange juice and coffee machines along with the hard stuff.
Securing a small business' computer systems--which might involve all sorts of gorpy stuff like firewalls, application Web network scanners, access controls and database encryption--can run into the tens of thousands of dollars, says Litan.
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