"I felt, at that time, that I needed to do something more, " Josefowicz says.

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What I realized for the first time that day was that he needed my service more than I needed his money.

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Pretty soon, I needed to start repaying some of that borrowed time.

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But I said at the time, last September, that we needed to listen to what the public were telling us.

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At the time, all sorts of people were telling me that I needed to put quotes on the back cover of the book.

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Later that next day when she needed time to do some work, I offered to cover for her.

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' I want to be able to say, 'I needed to do that movie because, of the opportunities that were given me at that time, this one had the best chance to provoke thought or inspire feelings or tell a dynamic story.

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Personally winning the Radio Category for the second time, after doing so in 2006, was a boost that I needed after leaving journalism for a while in 2007 and part of 2008 and venturing into TV drama production which didn't work very well for me.

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Too often, I believe, organizations spend too much time thinking about and planning for change management and all the steps that are needed to prepare the organization for change.

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"I started to realize the amount of time I was spending trying to compensate for the fact that I didn't know what investments needed to be made, and I didn't have the pattern recognition to know what was coming around the corner, " he says.

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