One of the biggest mistakes you can make as a manager (of any age) is to refuse to learn from your team.

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But that will never happen when one side expects the other to make all the sacrifices and both sides refuse to acknowledge tough decisions for fear of losing votes.

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Several states now make it tough to do this, as many refuse to recognize an out-of-state permit.

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It is hard to ask Americans to make sacrifices for the sake of national security if you are handing contracts to companies that refuse to pay taxes.

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And we refuse to believe that our politics are too broken to make the energy future we dream of a reality.

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If the copying of a digital work is not allowed, for instance, such a device will refuse to make a duplicate.

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Terrified victims often refuse to make a complaint to the police, who can do little in any case with descriptions of masked men.

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