They either see the changes as temporary blips to be ridden out, or they get too locked into the specifics of the plan and fail to respond appropriately to changes in markets, customers, and global conditions.
In Egypt, a nation where an inappropriate posting on the Internet could get you locked up in a dark prison for the remainder of your life, the uprising played out on Facebook rather than in secret, underground armories stuffed with caches of weapons.
Well, because one of the major downsides of buying a house is that your equity is locked up in it and you have this very long term mortgage contract that its hard to getoutof.