Tom Cruise in A Few Good Men. Sly Stallone in Rocky. Richard Gere in An Officer and a Gentleman. All three of these guys’ characters chose to “go for it” rather than back down for fear of what was likely going to happen. All three of them were rewarded with a Hollywood ending. In real [...]
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With all the attention being placed on the Gulf, I wanted to make sure today that we don’t drop the ball when it comes to our safety and well being in other areas of our life. Like the rest of our food supply. Did you know that genetically modified foods allow more crop to be [...]
Today, I have to call out someone for the real life mistakes he makes: me. No joke here. I don’t sit on any pedestal. Now, I know my leadership theory and understand business and management. I can teach communications. Generally speaking, I can convey important concepts and inspire people to make important change. That’s my [...]
So I’m running a week’s worth of material on career failure, and look what CNN’s running: an article on how to make an online video go viral in which they advocate—what else?—failure. I like when people embrace their career failures—not in a Carrie Prejean kind of way, her performance on Larry King Live was just [...]
What if, just by doing your job every day, you were part of the problem? It’s not as far fetched as it seems. What if, by following the rules and chasing the carrots held out for you, you contributed to a problem that was both catastrophic in scale and long-term in scope? How would you [...]
There’s a great post on the difference between mistakes and failure at Kevin Eikenberry’s blog. He suggests that mistakes are one time events that are an inevitable element of an innovative culture, whereas failure is a long term outcome of faulty thinking. Kevin, you don’t go far enough! The idea behind my “Fail Spectacularly!” is [...]
Scene: It’s 1995, and I’m a senior at Wharton. I’m interviewing at a boutique management consulting firm. It’s a second round interview, for which I have been invited—along with maybe 12 or so others—to a suite at Philadelphia’s Four Seasons hotel. We sit and mingle at the suite, nibbling off the impressive spread of shrimp [...]
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