The Imp Of The Impossible

The IMP of the ImpossibleNot long ago, I was forced to demand the resignation of a top-level executive in one of my companies. Although he was intelligent, hard-working and experienced, this man had a signal weakness that proved fatal to his career -- and which, in time, might well have proved fatal to the company. He simply could not distinguish between the possible and the impossible -- and his myopia extended to matters large and small.Typical of his costly blunders was his tendency to undert...