Dealing with Failures

 

 
   

How to prevent stupid failures and
benefit from noble failures

 

 

 

 

Failure is not something to be afraid of or to grieve about.
Failure is something to prevent or to benefit from.

Wise entrepreneurial people

turn failures to opportunities, and

② don't make the same mistake twice.

  How To Turn Failures to Opportuntiies

 

Vadim Kotelnikov (VadiK) inspirational speaker business trainer,

Failure is a friend of a homo thinking
and an
enemy of a homo emotional.

~ Vadim Kotelnikov

 

When you create something radically new, every step forward is a step into terra incognita where failures are teachers and opportunities are guides.

Fail forward – learn from failures and improve instead of viewing failures as setbacks.

 

 

 

 

 

The Power of Burning Desire and Burning Belief

Burning desire backed by burning belief knows no such word as 'impossible'. It ensures that you continue your commitment to see your purpose through, will never give up, continue getting up stronger after falling forward, maintain your relentless-growth attitude, and continue being productively creative, entrepreneurial and victorious.

 

Impact Crusader

Loving Creator

Innotheus

Achieve Impossible

Turn Failures to Opportunities

Never Give Up

 

 

 

Lao Tzu advice quotes teachings

Failure is the foundation of success,
and the means by which it is achieved.

Lao Tzu

 

Dale Carnegie quotes

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Dale
Carnegie

 

Narendra Modi quotes, India Prime Minister

Failures should never become a hindrance in the learning process. Instead, we must learn from our failures to strive and overcome challenges in our lives.

Narendra Modi

 

 

"In the West, our fixation on success discourages us from risk taking because it values success over learning, and it abhors failure whether we learn from it or not."

~ Parker Palmer

 

Disruptive Success is 99% Failure

Ask Learning SWOT Questions

 

 

 

 

     

Wise Approach

For wise people ‒ like myself ‒ failures simply don't exist. Wise people treat every experience as a learning opportunity and a stepping stone to success Case Studies.

Wise people avoid stupid failures, i.e. they don't make the same mistake twice because they have drawn a lesson from the previous experience and proceed wiser.

 

 

 

21 Secrets of Self-made Millionaires

  • Never Allow Failure To Be An Option... More

 

 

10 Lessons from Konosuke Matsushita

  • Bad times have their bright side... More

Humorous Business Plan

Smart Success

Brief History: "Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction." – Al Bernstein...

Growth Strategy: "The way to succeed is to double your failure rate." – Thomas J. Watson.

 

Pearls of Wisdom

East

Failure is the foundation of success, and the means by which it is achieved.

~ Lao Tzu

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

– Confucius

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

– Mahatma Gandhi

Many people dream of success. To me success can only achieved through repeated failure and introspection. In fact, success represents the 1% of your work that results from the 99% that is called failure.

– Soichiro Honda

West

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

– Friedrich Nietzsche

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

– Steve Jobs

I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.

– Thomas Edison

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

– Igor Stravinski

Once you embrace unpleasant news not as negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren't defeated by it. You're learning from it.

– Bill Gates

Turning Failures To Opportunities

3 Steps

  1. Get rid of all negative emotions – and lean: There is no failure, only feedback!... More

50 Rules of Project Management

  • If at first you don’t succeed, remove all evidence you ever tried.

  • The nice thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression

Mental Fengshui: 21 Rules

  • When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

Prevent Failures

You can prevent failures. Failure is the result of interactions in a system. It has structure and sequence. Once you understand how the system is working structure things differently, so you can avoid 'failure' again in the future... More

Noble Failure as a Primary Vehicle for Success

In Innovation and Change efforts, it is only by trying lots of initiatives that you can improve your chances that one of them will be a real breakthrough.

Noble Failure provides a great learning opportunity and should be viewed as a very lifeblood of success.  >>>

Innovators, intrapreneurs  and change leaders must have freedom to experiment  and, naturally, freedom to fail   because experimentation is about moving into an unknown territory.

According to NLP, there is no failure, only feedback.  >>>

Actually, it is only through seeming failures that most of greatest successes in life and business are achieved. Like beauty, "failure" or "success" is in the eye of the beholder. If you fall short of reaching a goal, ask Learning SWOT Questions and see how you can emerge stronger from this experience. How can you prevent such failures in future? Can you turn this "failure" to an opportunity? How could this "failure" and the lessons learned from it be turned to a longer term success?

How To Prevent Innovation (Humorous Tips)

  • Don't give your people freedom to fail.

Inspirational Business Plan: Successful Innovation

Brief History: "I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work." – Thomas Edison..

Steve Jobs' 12 Rules of Success

  1. Learn from failures. Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations... More

The Art of Innovation: 9 Truths

By: Guy Kawasaki

Don't worry, be crappy. An innovator doesn't worry about shipping an innovative product with elements of crappiness if it's truly innovative. The first permutation of a innovation is seldom perfect – Macintosh, for example, didn't have software (thanks to me), a hard disk (it wouldn't matter with no software anyway), slots, and color. If a company waits – for example, the engineers convince management to add more features – until everything is perfect, it will never ship, and the market will pass it by.

 

 Why Businesses Fail...

Turning Failures To Opportunities...

Positive Thinking...

Pursuing Opportunities Faster than Competition...

Fast Experimentation...

Freedom To Fail...

Creative Problem Solving...

Energizing People...

 

Akio Morita advice quotes Sony

Don’t be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.

Akio Morita

Sony

 

 

 

 

References:

  1. It's not the BIG and eats the SMALL... it's the FAST that eats the SLOW, J. Jennings and L. Haughton

  2. NLP Solutions, Sue Knight

  3. Changing Strategic Direction, Peter Skat-Rψrdam

  4. Bill Gates @ the Speed of Thought, Bill Gates with Collins Hemingway

  5. The Power of Failure, Charles C. Manz

  6. The Leader's Guide To Lateral Thinking Skills, Paul Sloane

  7. Inspiring Innovation, Ellen Peebles, Harvard Business Review on The Innovative Enterprise

  8. Motivation123, Newsletter, Jason Gracia

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