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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
- Company Liquidations Up 14.6 Percent
- By Kylie MacLellanLONDON (Reuters UK) - A record number of people in England and Wales succumbed to bad debts in the third quarter of this year but the pace at which companies went bust slowed, official figures showed on Friday.The Insolvency Service said company liquidations rose 14.6 percent on a...
- News items 2009-11-06
- Sales Success or Failure - Whose Fault Is It?
- From the executive summary: 'No one operates in a void within any organization. However, any organization is just that. A group of people aligned for a specific set of purposes. How well that organization functions is a not one, single person's or even the organization's responsibility. Instead, it is the...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Failure of MJK Clearing: Case Study
- This case study pertains to SIPC's concerns related to the liquidation of MJK, a broker-dealer in Minneapolis. MJK cleared for 65 introducing broker-dealers and had approximately 175,000 customer accounts. At the time of this study, the liquidation has cost SIPC approximately $110 million. In its Request for Proposal, SIPC requested...
- Case studies 2003-04-15
- 3 Deadly Advertising Mistakes
- It has been observed that most of the organizations does not focus or emphasise upon advertising which results in loss of business for the organization. Three of the deadly mistakes made in respect of advertising are the failure to be simple and clear, the failure to be direct and the...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Explaining U.S. Commercial Bank Births, Deaths, And Marriages
- The last twenty years of the twentieth century witnessed regulatory change not seen since the Great Depression. That regulatory change, culminating with the Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act of 1994, produced a significant consolidation within the banking industry, resulting from mergers and failures, that accelerated near the end of...
- White papers 2002-02-01
- Bank Failures in Mature Economies
- This paper studies bank failures in eight countries: Germany, Japan, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the U.S. It examines the reasons for the failures, how the failures were resolved, and what regulatory changes followed from the crisis. A good understanding of the reasons behind bank failures is...
- White papers 2003-04-01
- Planning As A Vaccination Against Failure
- The process of New Product Development NPD calls for extensive research by organizations. In addition, the research requires effective program planning. Every process in the corporate world requires extensive planning because without a proper plan, goals cannot be achieved. Experts suggest that value of planning is avoiding failure and mastering...
- White papers 2001-10-01
- How To Avoid Product And Ad Campaign Failures: Pre-Empt Resistance
- Marketers often face product and ad campaign failures. But, very few try to analyze the reason behind it. Experts suggest that it is beneficial to find the reason behind failures to reach out to the solution. Companies should not blindly believe that they would never encounter failure. Rather, they should...
- White papers 2004-03-02
- The Twelve Principles of Personal Leadership: Principle 1 – The Right Visionary Goals – Part 2
- From the executive summary: ‘Everyone experiences failure and disappointment in their life. The difference is that some people do not quit and tend to learn from their failures. Failure is not simply a lack of succeeding; rather, it is lack of ever trying to succeed.' Success and failures are like...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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