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Architecture & Engineering


Clive Shearer
Management
by Design
By Clive Shearer
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July 14, 2004

Management by Design: Approach work with realistic optimism

  • A total optimist jumps out of an aircraft without a reserve parachute. Strap on your Plan B reserve parachute, just in case.
    • By CLIVE SHEARER
    Special to the Journal

    If you look for optimism, you will find it. If you look for pessimism, you will find it too.

    Many people go to bed re-living the day in their thoughts. The things that went wrong or things said that they would like to take back tend to dominate the mind.


     
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