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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.
The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise to the occasion.
As our case is new, we must think anew and act anew.
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So, is this the latest pronouncement from some marketing speaker or management guru like Tom Peters, Jim Collins, or Jack Welch?
Nope.
Just some wise advice from Abraham Lincoln.
From over 140 years ago.
As the saying goes, "The more things change..."