Avoiding Almost

Healmostclosed the deal. Shealmostgot that big promotion. Theyalmost won the championship.Almost.

Near misses can be especially frustrating, since you didalmostenough work to make it happen. When a pro football team carries the ball 90 yards down the field, that progress was the sum of great strategy, precision, agility, and powerful execution. But when they fumble on the two yard-line and fail to put points on the board, all that effort fell short of driving any results. We live in a binary w...