There's an urgent need to stop reacting to each immediate vexing issue in isolation. Such response often creates unanticipated second-order effects and even more problems for us.
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When you face unexpected events, you have to try to overcome those problems, but at the same time, you have to continue working according to the plan that you defined since the beginning. So that's what we have tried to do - not to avoid the urgent responses but to continue the route that we had defined.
There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications.
My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes.
Sometimes, in order for things to get better, they have to end - even if it's momentarily.
There are sometimes problems for which there is no immediate solution, and there are sometimes problems for which there is no solution.
Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause.
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
Nobody likes to have trouble. The moment we get a hint that it's coming, a common response is, 'Oh no! Not again!'
Responsibility demands action, and dealing with the immediate threat must naturally be a top priority.
Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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