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Saturday, 10 March 2007

Pull the wool over your eyes

Posted by Simon Baker

If you’re still doing things the old way , Jason Yip provides some useful tips on how to create the perception that everything is okay .

In Peopleware , Tom Demarco referred to something similar as management with hysterical optimism .

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