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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
- 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
- Starting Own Business
- There are many factors to consider in starting own business and failure to do the proper planning can lead to problems and even failure. In fact, most small businesses do fail and very few make a profit in the first year that they operate. Some will take even longer to...
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Three Beliefs that Cause Sales Failures
- Here are three very common beliefs, that ALWAYS create failure. Please note that these aren't the beliefs that come out of your mouth; these are the beliefs that the little voice in your mind tells you when you're feeling blue. by Geoffrey James
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- Bank Failures: Should We Worry?
- The big U.S. banks are past the danger zone, but the number of small-bank failures this year is near 100. MoneyWatch's editors explain who is really affected.
- Videos 2009-10-15
- 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
- Use Failure to Grow Your Business | HBR IdeaCast
- Most employees are trained to be afraid of failure, especially in a traditional business environment. But that is the wrong approach with a new business, or one that is struggling to be more innovative, according to author Rita McGrath. She argues that failure is an excellent learning opportunity for businesses...
- Blog posts 2009-07-30
- Want to Succeed? Learn How to Fail
- Dean Shepherd, a professor of entrepreneurship at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, knows a few things about failure. Shepherd became interested in the subject as a doctoral student, when his father lost his longtime business. "He clammed up, denied that the business had gone and never spoke...
- Blog posts 2009-07-21
- Try to Fail -- the Right Way
- What if you were my employee and I gave you this task: "I want you to do X Insert difficult project here. You'll struggle with this task, and you probably have a 50 percent or higher chance of failing." You might think I'm setting...
- Blog posts 2009-07-07
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