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November 12, 2009
Management by Design: Learning from failure
By CLIVE SHEARER
Special to the Journal
Special to the Journal
Abatting average of 0.400 is considered excellent in professional baseball. A shooting record above 60 percent is outstanding in professional basketball. Yet these results mean that the top hitters in baseball fail to get a hit more than half of the time, and the basketball players miss 40 percent of their shots.
Every time they miss, they keep their focus on the next opportunity to improve.
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