“Teach a highly educated person that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure in order to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.”— Charles F. Kettering small biz rural entrepreneurship success failure
Motivating real and lasting change is a huge challenge, whether you are trying to change yourself or bring others to change. Change is simply hard. Is there any effective tool? Logic doesn’t work. Threats don’t work. Fear doesn’t even really work. What does that leave? Joy. Really. Joy. “Joy is a more powerful motivator than…
Why talk about failure? Long ago, I wrote a presentation on failure, and gave it for several local business groups. Everyone loved it. The blogging started when two posts collided at Stupid Mistakes and Lessons Learned. Then there were More Lessons Learned. I was excited to share what people have learned through their own experience….
Zane Safrit is thinking about the role of failure, posted at the Duct Tape Marketing blog complex. I’m a fan of failure. Maybe it’s because I’m so familiar with it. That familliarity has taught me great lessons like humility, compassion, patience, perseverance, planning, flexibilty. And it’s taught me that no success comes without failure. In…
“Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.”–William Saroyan Your business will go through cycles of success and failure. Some days you will be toiling away in the valley of hard work, with little reward in sight. Later, you will find yourself on…
“Only those who dare to fail greatly achieve greatly.”– Robert Kennedy small biz rural entrepreneurship success failure
Most of our quotes and thoughts so far have been on valuing failure because it is necessary for success. Another key element is overcoming the fear of failure. Escape from Cubicle Nation has an article on Three ways to take the fear of failing head on. Don’t let the fear of failure keep you from…
“The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivator, you’re down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you’re moving.”— Roberto Goizueta, former CEO of Coca-Cola small biz rural entrepreneurship success failure
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