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" ... Hope and dreams didn’t get me very far. I thought I could build a website and the clients would appear out of thin air. I effectively went broke within a month. I sold virtually everything we owned on eBay. It was hell. I felt like a dunce. A failure. An idiot. Then a client came along. And then another, and another. Things slowly got better. The dot-com crash of 2000 came and went, and I got by at a subsistence level. Then I landed a relatively large client and started making what I felt was very good money. But rather than enjoying it, I couldn’t resist the desire to grow the business. Despite my wife and me being full-time students, I rented office space, hired employees, and brought on two partners. ... "
" ... I can't advocate for forcing your child to wear a dunce cap (or placard) on a street corner, but now that the Holder-Mond family problems have gone public, things are moving in a positive direction. James has promised to up his grades and is now enrolled in after-school tutoring. ... "
" ... Our over-enthusiastic CEO above was a dangerous dunce because of his low level of understanding about the facts and impact of the crisis. Another variant is someone who perhaps understands the crisis but has low business skills or competence. He almost gets paralyzed by the outbreak of the crisis; and wastes a lot of time simply doing nothing. When he finally does spring to action, instead of using the opportunity to carefully prepare the organization for when normalcy returns, he indulges in knee-jerk reactions that might cause long-term harm to the business. Someone making drastic cuts in R&D or talent development to meet short-term profitability numbers would be an example. ... "
" ... “In those days, they just called you dumb,” he remembers. “I would sit in the corner sometimes with a dunce cap on.” ... "