People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.

Peter F. Drucker
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New ideas and new technologies often make people think they are now obsolete. However, those same people now see those ideas and technologies as the most innovative and exciting things in the world. The fact that these things no longer work or were once productive means they must be bad and outdated. When we keep our minds open, we can see that even the times we thought we were living in were actually the most innovative and exciting times in history.

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