Comments on: Why you need to fail to have a great career

By: rramakrishnan

rramakrishnan — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 10:49:26 +0000

Reblogged this on Smile! Life is a journey not a race… and commented:
Its not only in a career where failure can teach a lot, the same applies across various aspects in life. Few people are naturally gifted or developed the skill of self-awareness and they contantly seek views to do course correction. Others need to big set back to really think hard, pick up views, introspect and do a course correction. I strongly believe that if you ask the right questions to people one can learn from their experience, ofcourse the extent of learning varies. 2 quotes that i think are relevant to this topic, by Hyman G. Rickover

“Success teaches us nothing; only failure teaches.”

“You have to learn from the mistakes of others. You won’t live long enough to make them all yourself.”

Kodak as a company took many serious decisions to avoid failure, but then perhaps complacency set in! And one mistake trigerred a series of mistakes to just cover up the first mistake, you can see such steps from people and companies.

By: rramakrishnan

rramakrishnan — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 10:48:05 +0000

Its not only in a career where failure can teach a lot, the same applies across various aspects in life. Few people are naturally gifted or developed the skill of self-awareness and they contantly seek views to do course correction. Others need to big set back to really think hard, pick up views, introspect and do a course correction. I strongly believe that if you ask the right questions to people one can learn from their experience, ofcourse the extent of learning varies. 2 quotes that i think are relevant to this topic, by Hyman G. Rickover

“Success teaches us nothing; only failure teaches.”

“You have to learn from the mistakes of others. You won’t live long enough to make them all yourself.”

http://futuristcmo.com/category/organization-culture/

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Blog Campeao — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:16:50 +0000

I think this talk speaks to me because, while I’ve had many successes in my career, I’ve also had some spectacular failures. And those were indeed learning experiences Baixa Free

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