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Les mauvaises décisions initiales – choisir les mauvais associés ou ne pas engager les bons employés – sont très difficiles à rectifier, une fois prises. Avant que quiconque tente même de les corriger, il faut quelquefois une crise de l’ordre d’une faillite. Le premier travail du fondateur consiste à prendre les bonnes décisions initiales, parce qu’on ne peut construire d’entreprise florissante sur des fondements erronés.
We must recognize that no amount of formal planning can anticipate changes such as globalization and the information revolution we’ve referred to above. Does that mean that you shouldn’t plan? Not at all. You need to plan the way a fire department plans. It cannot anticipate where the next fire will be, so it has to shape an energetic and efficient team that is capable of responding to the unanticipated as well as to any ordinary event.
High Output Management
Andrew S. Grove
Aging also alters the speed of caffeine clearance: the older we are, the longer it takes our brain and body to remove caffeine, and thus the more sensitive we become in later life to caffeine’s sleep-disrupting influence.
Why We Sleep
Matthew Walker
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