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Denial:
Leadership, it has been said, consists of using minimum problems to create maximum positive change.
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Denial:
It is extraordinarily difficult to bring about change in a big company.
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Denial:
How do people react when they find themselves facing a fact that is too terrible to be true?… They deny it.
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Denial:
If something is too terrible to be true, then it cannot be true, because if it were, things would be too terrible.
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Denial:
Denial is not a matter of intelligence. It is a matter of point of view.
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Denial:
It is difficult to make a critical business decision when you are… emotionally entangled in the issue…
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Denial:
…a different point of view can inoculate you from denial.
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Denial:
In business, it is easier to get into something than to get out of it.
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Denial:
…denial… is prevalent in the early stages of nearly every fundamental shift in business conditions.
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Denial:
Denial occurs when push aside hard truths in favor of more palatable or convenient narratives.
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