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Put Failure in Its Place

Harvard Business Review

You've started a company and it goes belly-up. As we practice innovating we are propelled up a personal learning curve — and we begin to accomplish our dreams. The business I fronted that went belly-up: shouldn't I have better read the situation? Or you get fired. Being perceived as weak elicits tremendous shame.

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Put Failure in Its Place

Harvard Business Review

You've started a company and it goes belly-up. As we practice innovating we are propelled up a personal learning curve — and we begin to accomplish our dreams. The business I fronted that went belly-up: shouldn't I have better read the situation? Or you get fired. Being perceived as weak elicits tremendous shame.

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