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The ability to recognize, own, and shape your own emotions is the master skill for deepening intimacy with loved ones, magnifying influence in the workplace, and amplifying our ability to turn ideas into results. My successes and failures have turned on this master skill more than any other.

Content: Quotation | Author: Joseph Grenny | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Personal Development, Personality / Behavior, Success / Failure

Bad execution is when you try something that fails and a) you can’t really draw lessons out of that failure that would apply to a future project (because you don’t know why it failed) or b) it took you a year to learn a particular lesson when a smarter path would have let you learn the same thing in 3 months.

Content: Quotation | Author: Julie Zhuo | Source: Medium | Subjects: Execution, Management, Success / Failure

[Author] Nick Taleb explained that if you are lucky enough to have been born of intelligent parents and if you work your ass off, you are statistically likely to have a pretty good career. If your career is any better than pretty good, it’s luck. There is no statement in life that I believe more than that. And the set of people on earth who … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Tom Peters | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Career, Success / Failure

Does following Peters and Waterman’s eight principles guarantee you business success? Almost certainly not. One big problem with their research was that they only looked at successful companies. Knowing that all successful companies have something in common tells us nothing unless we also know that unsuccessful companies lack those things. We might find that all successful business founders displayed an interest in entrepreneurship from an … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Jess Whittlestone | Subjects: Best Practices, Management, Organizational Behavior, Success / Failure

Though we’re unlikely to ever distill success into a neat formula or set of principles, there is an alternative approach, which might bring more promise. [Jerker] Denrell suggests that rather than trying to demystify success, we should spend more time studying failure, which may come down to much more consistent principles. Understanding what not to do, if based on more solid evidence, could be much … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Jess Whittlestone | Subjects: Best Practices, Management, Organizational Behavior, Success / Failure

We don’t celebrate failure—“Good for us, we failed!”—but we liberate it. We try to take it from “trial and terror” to “trial and error.”

Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Success / Failure

Most businesses rehearse their response to a calamity of some sort. Almost everyone, for example, conducts fire drills. Many test their business continuity contingency plans. The problem is that most organizations do not rehearse for the real threats that are most likely to have a significant impact on the business. How many companies run a drill for a product launch failure? Or an M&A bomb? … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Crisis Management, Success / Failure

Success in the past always becomes enshrined in the present by the over-valuation of the policies and attitudes which accompanied that success.

Content: Quotation | Author: Bruce D. Henderson | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Success / Failure

he difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is the successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don’t want to do.

Content: Quotation | Source: OPEN Forum (American Express) | Subjects: Achievement, Success / Failure

It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. It doesn’t matter how many times you almost get it right. No one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you because […] all that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: OPEN Forum (American Express) | Subjects: Achievement, Luck, Success / Failure

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Content: Quotation | Author: Dale Carnegie | Source: OPEN Forum (American Express) | Subjects: Achievement, Success / Failure

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.

Content: Quotation | Source: OPEN Forum (American Express) | Subjects: Achievement, Success / Failure

I’ve seen that phenomenally successful people believe they can learn something from everybody. I call them ‘mavericks with mentors.’ Richard Branson, for instance, is a total maverick, but he surrounds himself with incredibly successful, smart people and he listens to them.

Content: Quotation | Source: OPEN Forum (American Express) | Subjects: Achievement, Success / Failure

Among the things that you, and you alone, are the absolute and final judge of is whether or not you are a success.

Content: Quotation | Source: OPEN Forum (American Express) | Subjects: Achievement, Success / Failure

Entrepreneurial genius—individual or collective—is a constant, torturous struggle between “being your best” and winning. Greatness without triumph isn’t truly great, but winning without being the best you can be is also a failure on some level.

Content: Quotation | Author: Michael Schrage | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Achievement, Entrepreneurship, Success / Failure

Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure. It just means you haven’t succeeded yet.

Content: Quotation | Source: OPEN Forum (American Express) | Subjects: Innovation, Success / Failure

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake—you can’t learn anything from being perfect.

Content: Quotation | Source: OPEN Forum (American Express) | Subjects: Experience, Learning, Mistakes, Success / Failure

Failure is just that thing trying to move you in another direction.

Content: Quotation | Source: Stanford University | Subject: Success / Failure

I know of no systematic attempt to demonstrate the efficacy in use of any framework described in any major success study. In the absence of hard evidence, it is far more likely that whatever benefit practitioners might have perceived or realized has been the consequence of some or all of a form of placebo effect (you expect it to help, so you perceive that it … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Michael E. Raynor | Source: The Conference Board Review | Subjects: Best Practices, Management, Success / Failure

There are 2 types of folks who make it: the lucky ones, and the persistent ones.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Achievement, Career, Luck, Personal Development, Success / Failure