But there's rarely a component of financial health and stress.

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Worse still is the structural component's shape: notches and sharp corners create concentrations of stress that can initiate cracks.

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"Simulations are seen as an important component of management development because they put people directly into a scenario, and that means there is stress and emotion, " he says.

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