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> This is just a natural protective instinct.

It is also because incoming consultants, or visiting people from overseas, often suggest seemingly practical, but actually pie in the sky solutions, that sends us off on yet another hare brained revision of the system.

By the time it turns out the solution wasn’t so practical after all, they’re long gone.

It’s very nice when you can steer them to suggest the correct things though, and management is suddenly willing to listen.




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