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The Big Picture of Business – The Fine Art of Failure: Benefiting from Mistakes to Assure Success

Strategy Driven

Continuous quality improvement means that we benchmark accomplishments and set the next reach a little further. Other activities bring us failure… from which we learn even more what to do to achieve success the next time. We learn three times more from failure than from success. There is no such thing as perfection.

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Top Leadership Blog Posts

Michael Lee Stallard

And a century and a half is an eyeblink compared with the eternity it would take to achieve this benchmark in senior management” S. A plan is a judgment about the best way to go about achieving an intended goal.” ” Lakshman Rajagopalan presents What can you do about a culture of Mistrust… posted at Learning Curves.

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The November 2011 Leadership Development Carnival

Great Leadership By Dan

And a century and a half is an eyeblink compared with the eternity it would take to achieve this benchmark in senior management". A plan is a judgment about the best way to go about achieving an intended goal.". Lakshman Rajagopalan presents What can you do about a culture of Mistrust… posted at Learning Curves.

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The Big Picture of Business: Yesterdayism… Learning from the Past, Planning for the Future.

Strategy Driven

Corporations have become extended families, thus embracing dysfunctionality, changes, modifications and learning curves. 7 Levels of Yesterdayism… Learning from the Past… Sources of Insights: Think They’ve Been There… Haven’t Yet Fully Learned from It. Benchmarking. Goal Inspiring.

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The Big Picture of Business – Yesterdayism… Learning from the Past, Planning for the Future

Strategy Driven

Corporations have become extended families, thus embracing dysfunctionality, changes, modifications and learning curves. 7 Levels of Yesterdayism… Learning from the Past… Sources of Insights: Think They’ve Been There… Haven’t Yet Fully Learned from It. Benchmarking. Goal Inspiring.

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The Big Picture of Business- Anniversaries Honor the Past and Build Support for the Future

Strategy Driven

In 1998, I advised the Disney corporation and reminded them that Walt Disney’s 100th birthday in 2001 would offer great marketing and positioning opportunities. Benchmarking. Good opportunities to compare successes, case studies, methodologies, learning curves and insights. Goal Inspiring. Good thinkers are rare.

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The Big Picture of Business: Lessons About Business Planning To Be Learned from the Y2K Bug

Strategy Driven

This approach costs six times that of doing things correctly on the front end… meaning planning, sequential execution and benchmarking progress. There always must exist a learning curve. Research shows that we learn three times more from failures than from successes. Unsuccessful marketing. Poor location.