Failure is inevitable as an entrepreneur, so it’s important to develop a healthy attitude about it. Here are four lessons you can learn from failing.
There’s a stigma against failure. Beliefs that “It can’t happen to me.” “It shouldn’t.” “It won’t.” It does. No matter who you are, what you do, how you do it, where you do it — failure is waiting.
We’ve all experienced failure on some kind of level, as it’s a natural part of life and business. As an entrepreneur, you likely already know what it’s like to live and operate in that mindset of ...
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. As an entrepreneur, you can count, with real certainty, on the likelihood that you’ll experience failure at some point in your career.
In Greek mythology, the phoenix lives a long life, exits spectacularly in flames, and then rises from the ashes of seemingly permanent death to live and flourish again. All organizations experience a ...
Many organizations repeatedly run troubled projects, with recriminations and blame associated with every unanticipated failure. Folks in these companies do not understand the natural cycle of failure, ...
For years playing soccer growing up in Connecticut, I dabbled in different positions on the field. But time and time again, I threw my long brown hair into a ponytail and headed toward the end of the ...
Failure can be a student’s best teacher—but only if educators know how to use it. “In the past, much of how we designed for learning and growth was without failure altogether. Then people started ...
Several times a month, community columnists weigh in on matters of faith and values. The Faith and Values column appears Mondays, and features retired Methodist minister Paul Graves, of Sandpoint; ...
It’s a minor tragedy of the historical profession that Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.’s instincts as a partisan ultimately trumped his gifts as a scholar. The son of a distinguished historian, he published ...