When I analyze my feelings with the benefit of hindsight, I realize that it's perhaps not so much the game I dislike but the rules and mores that accompany it.

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While I could envision how an over-amped fundraiser with little knowledge of the rules of the game might make such an error, I was certain that OFA would immediately step forward to set the record straight, denounce any such activity if it had occurred and insure that it would not happen again.

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And when I posted the rules online, I started to hear from people all over the world playing the game for things like depression, quitting smoking, finding a job, knee surgery, asthma, diabetes, chemotherapy, auto-immune disease, chronic pain.

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But I believe that strong rules and regulations make the game fair to all the players.

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When I entered the world of federal procurement after years in the commercial sector, I thought I had to step back and understand new rules of a new game.

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The only way Mehdi and I have managed to stay focused on the right things is to change the rules of the game so that self-imposed customer, product, and market fit failures have public consequences for the company and shareholders.

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Although there are likely several reasons for this, and the sampling size might not qualify this as a statistically significant result, I would offer that if you approach a game with the idea of how to work around the rules of the game in increase your odds of winning while your opponents are simply following the rules, your chances of winning will dramatically improve.

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