We learn from it and then intervene.

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If, as we hear all the time from leadership gurus, it is important to learn from failure, then this bunch has a ton to teach us.

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My thing is to teach people how to choose stocks for themselves, rather than specific recommendations, but I would definitely say go to IBM to get some information about cloud technology and learn about it and then move on from there.

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Ironically, military enlistees, who must learn to recognize a problem (like, where a bullet is coming from) and then solve it or die, may be better equipped to compete in the real world than their academically oriented brothers and sisters!

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