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Not All Debt Is Bad. From Time To Time We Should Get Into Debt When There's A Good Reason For That.

The Bad News Is That Ignoring The Performance Of People Is Almost As Bad As Shredding Their Effort In Front Of Their Eyes. Ignoring Gets You A Whole Way Out There. The Good News Is That By Simply Looking At Something That Somebody Has Done, Scanning It And Saying "uh Huh," That Seems To Be Quite Sufficient To Dramatically Improve People's Motivations.

In A World Where Everyone Is Behaving Honestly, Any Dishonesty Constitutes A Big Infraction. But, In A World Where Many People Are Behaving Dishonestly, And The News Is Filled With Stories Of Their Infractions, Even Big Infractions Can Feel Small To The Perpetrator.

When You're In Pain, Tomorrow Doesn't Exist - Just The Pain - And The Only Thing That You Want In The World Is For It To Go Away.

Disasters Are Usually A Good Time To Re-examine What We've Done So Far, What Mistakes We've Made, And What Improvements Should Come Next.