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The High Cost of Waiting

Life rafts are the thing you need when almost everything else fails. With the exception of a fierce and unexpected holing of the boat from some external force, or a fast-building fire you can’t contain, if you find yourself boarding a life raft, then you know that mistakes were made, opportunities were missed and—in most cases—you waited too long.

Leaving something built to float for

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