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Lesson 17: The buyer isn’t always the one with the money.
Lesson 18: Sometime there’s a tradeoff between having high machine utilization and maintaining low work-in-process inventories.
Lesson 19: It’s fine to let your accounts receivable terms get extended, as long as your accounts payable are stretched out longer.
Lesson 20: A new product solution can retroactively redefine something that was acceptable as a problem.
Lesson 21: Strong growth rates can cause bankruptcy, even in profitable businesses with continuously positive net income.
Lesson 22: Watch deferred income carefully, because companies can use it to mask a lot of things or obscure their current profitability.
Lesson 23: Brand value may not be tied to any measurable product attribute, but they can still make people very price insensitive.
Lesson 24: Pooling can shorten throughput times but makes information flow messier.

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