30 May 2015

• Lionize:  To treat (a person) as a celebrity
• Media tend to lionize large companies.  (HBR)
• Triage: The determination of priorities for action
• Filtering your e-mails will make it easier and faster to triage and review the messages that do make it to your in-box. (Alexandra Samuel)
• "Urgent" is different from "as soon as possible," or "immediately," "priority". Ask any doctor who has to perform triage. (Sarah Kass)  
• Primer: Any book of elementary principles
• Taken together, their solutions offer a useful primer on how we can begin to tackle this huge and growing problem.  (HBR, June 2015)
• Disparate: Distinct in kind; essentially different; dissimilar
• We suspected that their disparate backgrounds would lead them to offer dramatically different advice, and we were right. (HBR, June 2015)