Even those teams that do spend successfully develop trouble down the road, when those back ends of contracts for players past their primes kick in to strangle the club with excess payroll.

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Potholes develop after water that seeps beneath the road surface freezes, which then loosens the road surface.

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Knowing the pitfalls in advance allows you to develop strategies for avoiding derailment at an inopportune time down the road.

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And, in my view, one of the best ways to improve and develop is to spend time supporting someone who is ahead of you traveling the same road.

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The best path is a middle road, helping children develop a positive but realistic view of themselves in relation to others.

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The company is also helping some technical universities develop a curriculum based in part on open technologies that could benefit IBM down the road.

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In any case, I think the lesson to be learned, for those of us who aspire to be good leaders, is not simply that they failed to take the curve at 70 mph on a wet road, but that we can develop capabilities and skills that will help us avoid getting ourselves into a similar situation.

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Point number two is we want a million electric cars on the road. (Applause.) Over the next several years, we want to develop electric cars and make them affordable for everybody.

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