Stepping Over A Stack Of $100 Bills To Pick Up A Penny We can’t spend $10 on an off the shelf tool but we can spend $1,000 to develop our own, which doesn’t work and causes more problems than it solves. — Spending countless hours in useless meetings and then having a meeting to discuss why everything is overbudget and behind schedule.

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