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For Want of a Nail I thought it would be fun to translate a poem, For Want of a Nail which has an interesting history1 which I came across while reading about The Five Whys2 technique. The version of the poem reproduced in this post is attributed to Welsh poet George Herbert3. This is a poem which illustrates The Five Whys analysis to find the cause-and-effect relationship underlying a problem in an easy to remember form....