Toddlers

These are the fools around us who cause administrative expense and investment loss, as a result of not malice, but clumsiness and ignorance. These are part of the social landscape, such that in ordinary society we are required to have mechanisms in place to manage such contingency. 

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The management of a research portfolio requires attentiveness to mission-critical distractions. 

Weaknesses : Calculated research and development is a capital neutral situation. I suppose it is considered difficult to study something without positive feedback. To the operators, it can feel like a waste of time, of course. And time costs money. 

Threats : Negative feedback occurs when a business is harassed to incur expenses for secondary operations, while actively in pursuit of core development. A static balance sheet can be threatened with huge risks, attached to flimsy probabilities of good return, or strong probabilities of mediocre return.

The divestment of distracting priorities is a top priority for businesses under duress.