“Worrying about what might go wrong may not be as glamorous a job as speculating about the future, but it is a more essential job right now.”

— Nicholas Carr

Why IT Doesn't Matter Anymore http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/3520.html, Harvard Business Review, June 9, 2003.

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