What happens after failure….
By brendan at 27 October, 2009, 11:11 am
This is a video of a speech I did in June this year on corporate failure at AIMIA. Rather than talk about climbing back up, or just hanging on the cliff, I decided to talk about what happens when you actually fall off and your business fails. It was probably a bit too candid. Its [...]
Read More >>Failure has bad PR
By brendan at 16 March, 2009, 12:02 pm
In mid February the Churchill Club ran a programme called Innovation DNA which was about making innovation a sustainable programme in Australian SME’s. One of the panellists, Wes Sonnenreich from Deloitte, mentioned that a good failure was one that was quick and cheap.
Which got me thinking about failure again. My assertion has been for a [...]
Failing or Flailing?
By admin at 12 May, 2008, 10:16 am
In the late 80’s when I was training to be an Army Reserve Officer, one of the major training (and leadership development) techniques that had a major impact on me was ownership of failure. If you taught a lesson and more than a handful of people failed the quick test at the end, then you [...]
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