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M. DąbrowskiManaging IT Projectshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9243-3_23

23. It’s Always Good to Be in the Game

Marcin Dąbrowski1  
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Nowy Wiśnicz, Poland
 

Success is not final. Failure is not fatal.

—Winston Churchill

Finally, some words about losing, giving up, surrendering, when we have no more arguments, possibilities, chances, and we need to come to terms with the reality. Unfortunately, there will be situations when the supplier is offended, destroyed, or blatantly cheated. Some clients will use unfair tricks, enforce extra work, make additional quality demands, deliberately prolong the approval process, blackmail, postpone signing the protocols despite ...

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