All could well involve disappointment, missed opportunities, failure.
Airlines, he said, might represent "an equal opportunity failure mode".
"If you care about people on low incomes, if you care about refugees, if you care about tackling climate change, if you care about the fact that the NHS is chronically underfunded, about divisions, lack of opportunity, failure to maximise potential in the north, then backing a leadership which is going to fail to stand up for any of those causes is utterly reprehensible.
The three cases are 'Unexpected Opportunity', 'Failure then Success', and 'Technophobia'.
Rosen writes that she set out to "evoke the remarkable passion and accomplishments" of the time without ignoring "the many mistakes, squandered opportunities and failures of imagination that are part of every life and every movement".
"Perfectionists seem to be motivated by a fear of failure, and new tasks are viewed as opportunities for failure rather than accomplishments".
Those aspirations faded as the season dissolved into a series of missed opportunities: a failure to execute in crucial moments, a failure to establish a home-court advantage in a lame-duck arena, and a failure to overcome injuries.
For all the buoyant optimism generated by the Panmunjom talks, he said, "there are innumerable opportunities for failure".
With a vacuum cleaner, the opportunities for failure, and the way people are abusing it, is far higher.
There are many opportunities for failure when designing information systems.
