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Tupperware culture, and the culture of most direct selling businesses, is infused with the rhetoric of positive thinking manuals, a genre of writing with a long history in the United States.

However, positive thinking alone should encompass realism and the ability to face brutal facts. This principle works for business, and this principle works for life. Get a CEO with a sales background ...