Comments on: How Failure Breeds Success http://www.businesspundit.com/how-failure-breeds-success/ Entrepreneurship, Startup Companies and Business Philosophy Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:54:25 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: appliance parts http://www.businesspundit.com/how-failure-breeds-success/comment-page-1/#comment-1188 appliance parts Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:06:54 +0000 http://www.businesspundit.com.php5-6.websitetestlink.com/?p=2759#comment-1188 I also have a very strong idea about failure and that includes the fact that you have a lot to learn from them, provided that they are not too many. Everyone needs failures for one good reason: to try to be the best and to let the others know that you are able to do more. I also have a very strong idea about failure and that includes the fact that you have a lot to learn from them, provided that they are not too many. Everyone needs failures for one good reason: to try to be the best and to let the others know that you are able to do more.

]]> By: John http://www.businesspundit.com/how-failure-breeds-success/comment-page-1/#comment-1187 John Wed, 05 Jul 2006 16:37:42 +0000 http://www.businesspundit.com.php5-6.websitetestlink.com/?p=2759#comment-1187 That is a good article, and the idea is one we've heard for years. I've heard it my entire career. It's one of those things that sounds really good in theory but most managers and would-be leaders I've worked with will avoid even the smallest chance of failure in exchange for doing the same thing again and again. Sadly they'll do this even when that thing isn't working, keeping the failure they know rather than risking some new (presumably more horrible) new failure. This is probably human nature, and I've struggled with it too. One of the ways I got over my rabid avoidance of failure was to assume that whatever we were trying was going to fail miserably and then ask "so what?" picturing the failure in my mind and working through it. Most of the time the answer to "so what?" is "we just try something else." Not really such a big deal. That is a good article, and the idea is one we’ve heard for years. I’ve heard it my entire career. It’s one of those things that sounds really good in theory but most managers and would-be leaders I’ve worked with will avoid even the smallest chance of failure in exchange for doing the same thing again and again. Sadly they’ll do this even when that thing isn’t working, keeping the failure they know rather than risking some new (presumably more horrible) new failure.

This is probably human nature, and I’ve struggled with it too. One of the ways I got over my rabid avoidance of failure was to assume that whatever we were trying was going to fail miserably and then ask “so what?” picturing the failure in my mind and working through it. Most of the time the answer to “so what?” is “we just try something else.” Not really such a big deal.

]]> By: John West http://www.businesspundit.com/how-failure-breeds-success/comment-page-1/#comment-1186 John West Wed, 05 Jul 2006 16:35:24 +0000 http://www.businesspundit.com.php5-6.websitetestlink.com/?p=2759#comment-1186 That is a good article, and the idea is one we've heard for years. I've heard it my entire career. It's one of those things that sounds really good in theory but most managers and would-be leaders I've worked with will avoid even the smallest chance of failure in exchange for doing the same thing again and again. Sadly they'll do this even when that thing isn't working, keeping the failure they know rather than risking some new (presumably more horrible) new failure. This is probably human nature, and I've certainly struggled with it too. One of the ways I got over my rabid avoidance of failure was to assume that whatever we were trying was going to fail miserably and then ask "so what?" picturing the failure in my mind and working through it. Most of the time the answer to "so what?" is "we just try something else." Not really such a big deal. That is a good article, and the idea is one we’ve heard for years. I’ve heard it my entire career. It’s one of those things that sounds really good in theory but most managers and would-be leaders I’ve worked with will avoid even the smallest chance of failure in exchange for doing the same thing again and again. Sadly they’ll do this even when that thing isn’t working, keeping the failure they know rather than risking some new (presumably more horrible) new failure.

This is probably human nature, and I’ve certainly struggled with it too. One of the ways I got over my rabid avoidance of failure was to assume that whatever we were trying was going to fail miserably and then ask “so what?” picturing the failure in my mind and working through it. Most of the time the answer to “so what?” is “we just try something else.” Not really such a big deal.

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