 OUR TAKE -
Perseverance
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A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.
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David Brinkley
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Today, I am going to attempt to pull together the disparate themes of the last two columns. So if you missed them, take a moment to read about making difficult decisions of survival as well as why I believe everything's gonna be all right.
When I read the story about the young man who made the decision to cut off his arm to save his life, I envision a great deal of suffering driving a wide range of thoughts. The mind can be an incredible "anxiety generator" that clouds judgment. But in that moment, the man kept his wits about him and made the right difficult decision. He persevered.
As business look to persevere, it is about keeping your eye on the fundamentals. It is about not letting those "anxiety generators" get the best of us. An unknown author once wrote, "My anxieties are usually about things that never happen."
For me, perseverance is about worry about the things I can make happen rather than worrying about the things that might happen. That's my take. What's your take?
Gary Lemke, Publisher
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| HP | 28.61 | | 1.57 |
| NetSuite | 9.35 | | 0.3 |
| ClickSoftware | 2.89 | | 0.09 |
| APAC | 1.8 | | 0.05 |
| NICE | 23.7 | | 0.63 |
| SPSS | 24.54 | | 0.65 |
| Salesforce | 33.33 | | 0.84 |
| NCR | 7.46 | | 0.18 |
| CDC | 0.85 | | 0.02 |
| Oracle | 15.34 | | 0.25 |
| RightNow | 7.03 | | 0.11 |
| Vignette | 5.92 | | 0.02 |
| Interactive | 8.21 | | 0.01 |
| Amdocs | 16.79 |  | -0.01 |
| SAP | 33.75 | | -0.03 |
| Epicor | 2.89 | | -0.01 |
| ATG | 2.2 | | -0.01 |
| Tekelc | 11.78 | | -0.12 |
| Sykes | 14.46 | | -0.17 |
| Teletech | 9.65 | | -0.12 |
| Convergys | 6.13 | | -0.1 |
| SupportSoft | 1.76 | | -0.03 |
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