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I’ve failed a lot in my career, and I wont bore you with a laundry list, safe to say the failures weren’t career threatening, just embarrassing.
I did learn though. The painful touch of failure made the lesson all the more memorable.
Taking stock, achieving the meaningful results in large projects the first time around is rare. I’ve certainly found that the best lessons are learned when things don’t happen the way you want them to and you find out what doesn’t work as planned.… Read more
In my business career I’ve dealt with five business recessions (1987, 1997, 2000, 2004, 2007-9) and a similar number of booms but what i’ve learnt is business is they were never predictable.
Next year… Up? Down? Growing? Stagnating? … who knows, so how can you generate predictable success?
How then, as a business leader can you set attainable, realistic goals in an up/down, who-knows-what’s-next market–without demoralising your team by setting them up for failure through unreachable targets?… Read more