The SOW just came through on a new client. You do some research and find that they just cut their staff by 20% and you are the lucky security professional that gets to do their PCI compliance review! You file this in the back of your mind as an environmental factor and proceed to prepare for the engagement. After all, what matters here is the review, right? In a Harvard Business Review article, Dan Ariely writes of the long term effects of negative emotional situations.”]
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