One of the biggest dangers for business leaders is holding on to outdated ideas and assumptions and getting stuck in old ways of thinking.

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However, although some voters viewed Lopez Obrador as an important alternative to the centrist PRI and the right-of-center party of outgoing president Felipe Calderon, many Mexicans were also wary of his outdated economic views and anachronistic policy ideas.

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The irony of this approach was that, like the original Electronic Data Systems contract, it embodied fashionable ideas at the time it was first formulated, but now that the Navy is ready to actually implement those ideas they look a bit outdated.

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Saying that job-creating entrepreneurs eager to invest their precious sweat equity are being slowed down by outdated policies, investor and author Andy Kessler has come up with five compelling ideas that business leaders in every industry should evaluate long and hard.

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