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The trouble with Shakespearean quotations is that the people who use them to demonstrate a point, generally fail to take into account the sort of character who speaks the line. Polonius is a meddling old idiot, who gets himself stabbed through the arras (so it really was curtains for him) while spying on Hamlet (because he knows that Hamlet is really unstable and prone to outbursts—something that would make a smart person choose to leave the room, instead of hiding behind a curtain and spying on them) in Gertrude’s bedroom. Knowing that Polonius is the same one who also says the much-quoted “Neither a borrower nor a lender be”, should make you think twice about that advice too.
As for Drucker’s advice, it is definitely good advice, but in the hands of people who overly analyze everything to the point of getting stuck in “analysis-paralysis”, it can be kryptonite.
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