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

Strategy Driven

We learn three times more from failure than from success. 7 Degrees of Failure… Plateaus in the Learning Curve. ” Beginning to learn better approaches by analyzing the wrong ways of doing things. By studying swings of the pendulum (likelihoods of failures), one better understands their progress.

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What to Do When Your Peer Becomes Your Boss

Harvard Business Review

In other words, how do you manage up to someone who’s just jumped a level above you and who might’ve been a friend? In some ways, you’ll have to treat your new boss like you would a manager you’ve never met before , says Michael Watkins, author of The First 90 Days. Does your relationship need to change?

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Plan a Satisfying Retirement

Harvard Business Review

Case study #1: Embrace your personal passions as the source of new opportunities. Gail decided to dedicate her time and energy to a personal passion: music. It was a huge learning curve for me: I had to read the back of CDs to find out the names of producers and songwriters,” she says. .”

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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. Applying Pop Culture to Today.