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Consider this: can we avoid destructive eagerness?

15 Monday Dec 2014

Posted by Martyn Rhisiart Jones in Consider this

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Business Alignment, Business Requirements, Data Warehousing, information management, IT Project Failure, IT Strategy, project management, Requirements management, Stakeholder Engagement, The Perils of Unbridled Enthusiasm

For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

Proverbs 1:16

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism

Martyn Richard Jones

Remaster for 2026. A Coruña, Galicia, Spain.

I’m not a psychologist, and people who read my blog will know this for sure. But I would like to examine the notion of wanting something so much that, at best, we don’t enjoy it when we obtain it, or worst still, that our eagerness means that we will never get that which we truly want. Continue reading →

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