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I’ve recently watched two HBO productions that had me thinking : The Inventor, a documentary about the Theranos scandal, and Chernobyl, a mini-series of the worst accident in nuclear history, but which captured a basic truth about why it happened. “The Chernobyl disaster was more about lies, deceit and a rotting political system than it was about bad engineering or abysmal management and training.”… Read more
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