For many managers it might be better to stop envying the high life and even higher share prices of their youthful competition, and just learn to let go.

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Surprisingly, the conceit of looking down from heaven works nicely, since Ms Sebold avoids the precious, making Susie's paradise agreeably ordinary, a place where the dead learn to let go of the living while below the living learn to let go of the dead.

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While there are certainly times when I felt justified in speaking up for myself, perhaps the hardest lesson I had to learn was knowing when to just let it go.

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Executives who fail to learn this lesson are often let go despite their track record.

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