Posts Tagged ‘Failure’
The Keys to Learning from Your Business Failures
So you screwed up. What next? There’s something you notice a lot in online marketing—the story of how an entrepreneur tried, failed, recovered and then succeeded. It’s a good story and an important story. But it kind of misses a little something sometimes. Let’s be honest. It’s easier to talk about how you learned from…
Read MoreReward Success and Failure. Punish Only Inaction.
Reward failure? That may be a difficult concept for an executive. And there are limits of course. We wouldn’t reward a failure to follow laws, or protect lives, or deliberate endangerment of the company or its people.
Read More 5 Quick Reasons Why Your Startup Failed
Being a first time entrepreneur is fun and exciting, but nothing prepares you for the day you finally realize that things aren’t working out.
Read More How to Bounce Back from Crushing Defeat
As a record-making quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings in the 1970s, I led my team to three Super Bowls in a span of only four years. In case you hadn’t heard, I lost all three of them.
Read More Why Your Company Keeps Killing Big Ideas
Just after speaking at a conference last week, I was approached by a gentleman who introduced himself as a “newly minted and incredibly afraid chief innovation officer.”
Read More 3 Things Great Leaders Gain from Failure
Sometimes you have to fail in order to win. While this may seem counterproductive, mistakes can actually serve as life-changing experiences.
Read More 10 Ways Entrepreneurs Fail Their Way to the Top
Unfortunately, many entrepreneurs seem to prefer to fail their way to the top, rather than do some research and learn from the successes and mistakes of others.
Read More 4 Success Strategies I Took from the NFL to My Business
If football taught me anything about business, it’s that you win the game one play at a time. It’s an analogy I’ve used in the past. As a small business owner and entrepreneur, I face many of the same challenges I did on the field and I use similar strategies for tackling them.
Read More Quick Quiz: What Do Investors Cite as the Common Cause of Failures?
What do venture capitalists and angel investors cite as the common cause of the failures in their portfolios? That’s a great question, which somebody posed in Quora. And as I write this post, it has several really interesting answers.
Read More What to Do When Your Boss Says It’s Time to Innovate
Unfortunately, saying you are innovative before you actually have a culture that knows how to be so—and produces work that truly is—is incredibly destructive because you wind up breaking promises with your staff and with your customers.
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