The Water MBA

The Water MBA

Oops!...I did it again

We don't trip over the same stone twice. We trip over it again and again...

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Ramon Rubio de Castro
Oct 13, 2026
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We, professionals, have a strange relationship with mistakes.

We all know the saying: you should never make the same mistake twice.

Well… I don’t think that’s how it works.

We don’t trip over the same stone twice. We trip over it again and again.

Fourteen years into my professional career, I still see people making the same mistakes. Sometimes I make them myself.

And every time, there is that moment when you look back and think:

Oops, I did it again.

So I thought it would be interesting to put together some of the most recurring mistakes I have seen in the water business over the last 14 years… but I am still watching today.

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