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- 10 Inspirations for Embracing Failure
- You know the guy on your team who's always pushing back against unusual ideas? The gloom-and-doomer who's convinced that if it's different, it must be wrong? Could be he's just afraid of not succeeding at a new endeavor. Here's some food for thought to convince him that...
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- The Wisdom of Deliberate Mistakes
- The Idea in Brief If you're like most managers, you frown on mistakes--yours and others. Why? Your organization demands optimum performance. And it rewards you based on the height of your successes, not the depth of your...
- Articles 2008-04-01
- Dealing with Failure
- Thomas Edison (1847–1931) is credited with the invention of the phonograph and the electric light bulb. When asked about his numerous experimental failures, he said: "I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I...
- Articles 2007-11-08
- Bankruptcy Is Capitalism: Why Failure Does Us Good
- I hope you didn't let your guard down after the bank stress tests. This morning, we learned that BankUnited is the largest bank failure this year. Federal regulators seized the Coral Gables, Fla., institution at a cost to the FDIC of $4.9 billion. BankUnited is actually the second-largest bank to...
- Blog posts 2009-05-22
- Thinking About International Business Consulting?
- Risk management focuses on potential failures in a project. Where as, project management is focused on the success of opportunities. "If the project manager is busy "Managing" the risks, there is little time to manage opportunities - ignoring half the "Management in the presence of uncertainty" equation." Risk management is...
- White papers 2007-03-20
- Some Popular Job Interview Mistakes And How To Avoid Them
- Impressing your interviewers and satisfying them with your responses is called effective communication, failure to effectively communicate leads to failure to be understood and failure to get the message across of how beneficial an employee you can be to the organization or establishment in question. Match the style of the...
- White papers 2008-05-09
- Taking Time Off From Your Business
- When the success or failure of your business truly depends on you, and you alone, failure is not an option. You will work whatever hours it takes and it's easy to stay focused on the work in front of you and landing the next client. Taking time off or having...
- White papers 2007-01-17
- Why You Should Elevate Partnership Brand Marketing To The Strategic Level
- Product and Brand failures occur on an ongoing basis to varying degrees within most product-based organizations. This is the negative aspect of the development and marketing process. In most cases, this failure rate syndrome ends up being a numbers game. There must be some ratio of successful products to each...
- White papers 2005-12-13
- Time Management: Common Meeting Failures
- Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. Why is it that in the world of corporations and government that meetings, more times than not, do not work? What characterises the behaviour of individuals and the teams who meet that destroys the ability of any meeting to actually...
- White papers 2007-06-01
- Failing To Learn And Learning To Fail (Intelligently)
- The idea that people and the organizations in which they work should learn from failure has great popular support and even seems obvious. However, organizations that systematically and effectively learn from failure are very rare. This paper provides insight into what makes learning from failure so difficult to put into...
- White papers 2004-02-05
- Success Or Failure: The Choice Is Yours
- The author knew when he had made it. Will you know when you have? Why do some people succeed, some run a treadmill and others fail? Surprisingly enough, many people who succeed have failed many times before. Even Iacocca revealed in his autobiography what the "Gut-wrenching" pain of being fired...
- White papers 2003-07-29
- The Big Ten Innovation Killers And How To Keep Your Innovation System Alive And Well
- While it's probably impossible to compute the exact percentage of business initiatives that fail, it is widely acknowledged that most do. After years of research and observation, it is clear that the same reasons for any change initiative failure tend to be the same culprits that make innovation initiatives fail....
- White papers 2004-01-27
- Change In Project Management
- Project management should be viewed as a tool that helps organisations to execute designated projects effectively and efficiently. The use of this tool does not automatically guarantee project success. It should be emphasised that the causes for the failure to deliver on time, on budget and to the quality of...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Motivating The Management Team
- Managers influence and motivate their people and their organizations. The question is, how? We need not concern ourselves about the small percentage of people who are self-motivated. These people somehow find something positive in every action even though it leads to temporary detours or failures. They have no difficulty recovering...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Overcoming Obstacles in Planning the Product Launch
- The product launch is one of the most visible activities in product management because it represents the pivotal handoff between the structured new product development process and the less structured activities of post-launch product management. Because the launch is so visible and often accompanied by much fanfare, its success or...
- White papers 2006-11-20
- DHL, GM: Does Failure Have Consequences?
- Joel West submits: Reading the WSJ page B1 at lunch yesterday, I was struck by the ironic juxtaposition of two stories. The first was about failure and its consequences: DHL Beats a Retreat From the U.S. by Joel West
- External links 2008-11-12
- How Failure Makes You a Better Manager
- If you haven't had a few failures in your career, or you think you're impervious to disaster, then there's a gaping hole in your experience. Failure provides balance that makes you a stronger leader and a more capable and promotable manager. Simply put, failure teaches you critical career lessons. Here...
- Blog posts 2009-04-10
- 5 Questions for "100 Best Business Books" co-author Todd Sattersten
- Todd Sattersten started out his career as an engineer at General Electric. Now he's president of 800CEORead, a Milwaukee specialist in business books. Todd was recently in the Boston area for an event around the new book he and Jack Covert have authored, "The 100 Best Business Books of All...
- Blog posts 2009-02-18
- The Upside of Failure | BTalk Australia
- (17min 15) When your business fails the tendency is to blame yourself. It can be an incredibly lonely time. Yet many of the world’s most successful business people have re-emerged from failure. With a few failures behind him Mark Kenway offers advice for anyone experiencing a business...
- Blog posts 2009-02-04
- Overcome Your Fear of Failure
-  Fear of failure can prevent people from doing various things, but fear of success also gets in the way. We develop our self-concept from an early age and once it is formed, it is difficult to change. We “know†what we can -- and cannot --...
- Blog posts 2008-10-29
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