Word: guts
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...would have been tough to script a more gut-wrenching loss than Brown’s 21-point collapse to Harvard last season. But a double-overtime defeat after leading 16-0 in the first quarter comes pretty close...
...What [Coach] Sue [Caples] ended up saying was ‘It wasn’t pretty, but good teams gut it out and find a way to win,’” DeAngelis added. “We’re going to take it as a learning experience and really grow from it. It’s good to play good teams because they expose your weaknesses and you find out what you have to work...
...specific regimens to follow, the most important component of a good decision is simply practical reasoning. And all that means is that you need to use a little bit of both calculation and intuition. Follow a philosophy of “informed intuition”: Pay attention to your gut feeling but also make sure that you’ve done your research. Learn to trust yourself a little bit. Well, unless you were that guy in the bright neon green suit I saw yesterday in Boston...
...cred on the outside, poaching from the likes of Neiman Marcus. Camille McDonald, whom Fiske wooed away from LVMH Mot Hennessy--Louis Vuitton to develop new brands and soup up the old ones, says the decision to leave the crme of the luxury-universe crme was "gut wrenching." But after reading Trading Up and having a lot of long talks with Fiske, she realized that a fundamental shift was under way and that she could choose to be a part of it--or not. "The face of luxury is changing," she says. "And here is a chance...
...gutsy play, and it came from the gut: unlike almost any other high-tech company, Apple refuses to run its decisions by focus groups. But Jobs is a hardened gambler, and he doesn't scare easily. This is the guy who coolly poured millions of his own dollars into an unknown and direly unprofitable company called Pixar before anybody had even made a full-length computer-animated movie. "The more we started to talk about what this could be," Jobs says, "it wasn't long before I said, 'You know, what if we just bet our future on this...