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Only the paranoid survive. Success breeds complacency — when you stop watching for threats, the business can slip away as fast as it came.
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You can't cost-cut your way out of obsolescence. Fry's kept slashing staff and competing on price when the real problem was their entire model had been disrupted.
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Internal controls matter at scale. A single VP ran a nine-figure fraud for over a decade because nobody was watching the numbers closely enough.
