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Law Number XXIX: Executives who do not produce successful results hold on to their jobs only about five years. Those who produce effective results hang on about half a decade.
Norman Ralph Augustine
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Norman Ralph Augustine
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: July 27
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Law Number XXXII: Hiring consultants to conduct studies can be an excellent means of turning problems into gold, your problems into their gold.
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Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.
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The process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly.
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It costs a lot to build bad products
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