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Practice Makes Much, Much Better | Advanced Competitive Strategies

Homeland Defense Journal, July 2007. Adapted from a speech at the French Ministry of Health, May 2007.

Nobody ever intentionally makes bad decisions, yet bad decisions get made. Nobody ever writes a plan that they expect will fail, yet plans fail. We have a choice: We can learn from experience, or we can learn before experience. We can learn where it’s dangerous, or we can learn where it’s safe.

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