Yes, there is a time to pivot, to cut your losses and to move forward but for a true entrepreneur (and for most every successful leader) that point is much further along the realm of the seemingly impossible than any other participant or observer would have thought.

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William Smyser, a participant in and observer of the process, lived in Hitler's Germany, served with the United States forces in Germany in the 1950s, worked under General Lucius Clay in Berlin during the 1960s and was the political counsellor at the American embassy in Bonn during the decade that followed.

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Zoffany seems to have had a restless streak that kept him on the move, from Rome back to Germany, back to Italy, and then, by late 1760, to England, where he settled briefly and turned into a central observer and participant in the art and culture of his time.

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He seemed something like an interested observer rather than active participant in the proceedings.

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And yet he craves admission to the Eurogroup not as a participant, he says, but as an observer.

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