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This is the ninth and last post I’ll make for the new General Manager… it talks about failure, how it’s inevitable if you are to learn and grow and how you can also be a become better at more intelligent when approaching failure.
Failure is an inevitable part of life, especially in the realm of leadership. New leaders must embrace the idea of failing in order to succeed.… Read more
We are undergoing tremendous change. The CEO of advertising conglomerate WPP has said that “we’re seeing 10 years of innovation crammed into 4 weeks” as companies struggle with the impact of Covid-19 and rapid digitization.
I’m reminded of a great literary reference from The Leopard, by di Lampedusa, in particular the line ‘everything needs to change, so everything can stay the same.’… Read more
There is a much repeated statement in business at the moment that 70% of change management projects fail.
Wow!
If after all this time and focus on managing change projects as still 70% failure, what’s going on?
I teach a session for various corporate clients on implementing change, and I’ve seen this statistic quite a bit, and I’m revising an upcoming session and looking for a motivator to get people to pay attention to the session.… Read more
There is a whole literature about success being born from failure.
And, yes, in essence I agree with this big idea; that only through testing yourself and accepting that your testing could produce failures, can you create a successful business, strategy, approach, career etc.
As a new General Manager, you’ll be counselled by your HR team to be tolerant of failure, to support failure, to even encourage failure as a means to speed success.… Read more
In the series of posts about becoming a great new General Manager, I’ve written almost exclusively about success, successful habits, success processes. Its time now to consider the causes of business problems, and consider it in a positive way
Failure and the causes of failure, manifest themselves in many ways but to truly solve a problem you must make sure you have found the root cause. … Read more