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Tag Archives: success
When to Begin Anew
“If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.” –Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors “Bad shit is coming. It always is in a startup. The odds of getting from launch to liquidity without some kind of disaster … Continue reading
Posted in change, Innovation
Tagged aereo CEO Chet Kanojia, craig forman, failure, General Magic Joanna Hoffman, giving up too soon, pivot, regrets, success, video about failure, y combinator dalton caldwell
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Successful Failures: When We Want to Succeed but Can’t
by Craig Forman We all want to succeed. So, one of the trickiest decisions in business is knowing when to ‘pull the plug’ on a failing initiative. With so much at stake (employee careers, investor expectations, client needs – to … Continue reading
Posted in leadership, leadershipskills, management
Tagged Alexa, amazon, calling it quits, craig forman, demoralized culture, entrepreneurship, failure, Jeff Bezos, Joanna Hoffman, judgment, Leadership, perseverance, persevere, quitting, recode, success, successful failure, time to quit, vox media, YCombinator Partner Dalton Caldwell
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Shift Your Thinking to Optimism in the Face of Fear
By Judith E. Glaser Are Your I-Centric Habit Patterns Getting the Best of You? We live in a world of moving targets. Once we get into routines we feel comfortable, and from comfort comes confidence. Yet in a world of … Continue reading
Posted in change, HR, Innovation
Tagged amygdala, arrogance, change, confidence, connection, defensiveness, ego, failure, i-centric, optimism, patterns, pessimism, power, protection, protective behaviors, reframing, scarcity, success, taking risks, winning, wrong
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Simple Courage: Face the Facts for Behavior Change
by Sandra Ford Walston There is a direct correlation between your “courage quotient” and your “success quotient.” When you begin to live in the present you recognize when you are selling your soul. For example, people assume that finding a … Continue reading
Posted in change, HR, leadership
Tagged challenge, change, complacent, consciousness, courage, courage quotient, curious, ego, finding a job, honesty, inertia, Leadership qualities, mediocrity, mistakes, opportunity, self mastery, self-discipline, simplicity, source wheel diagram, status quo, success, suffering, work life
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Loss and Failure,Increasing Your Batting Average at Work
by Richard French The number of youth players in baseball has been declining over the last several years. It’s hard. You hit a round ball with a round bat and it’s a game of attrition and failure. There is no … Continue reading
Posted in HR, leadership, Team building
Tagged baseball, Christy Mathewson, contribution, entrepreneur, failure, Hall of Fame, individual performance, leadership skills, leadership traits, losing, resilience, risk, success, team performance, winning
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The Power of Response-ability
“Response-ability” is part of Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits. I recently read about this in his classic powerful book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. I know, not a new book, but something you can read over and over and … Continue reading
Posted in change, HR, Leadership Skills
Tagged anger, bad luck, blame, change, character, choice, control, dealing with frustration, focus, goals, habits, proactive, reactive, response to change, response-ability, stephen covey, success, values, vision statement, visualization
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How to Build Opportunity Creating Behavior
by Craig Forman How Former Senator Bill Bradley Creates More Luck in His Life One person who epitomizes many of the best opportunity-creating behaviors I describe in my new book Be Luckier in Life, is former Presidential candidate Senator Bill Bradley. His accomplishments and achievements … Continue reading
Posted in HR, Leadership Skills
Tagged achievement, beliefs, bill bradley, career, creating luck, destiny, dreams, education, leadership characteristics, leadership traits, luck, opportunity, presidency, purpose, reform, resilience, self awareness, setbacks, success
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How Successful People Make Themselves ‘Luckier in Life’
…and How You Can Too. by Craig Forman The two most important days in your life are the day you are born, and the day you know why. Unfortunately for some people, that second day never occurs. For lucky people, … Continue reading
Posted in change, HR, motivation
Tagged bill bradley, calm, clarity, conviction, craig forman, destiny, epiphany, goals, howard leadership leadership, howard schultz, howard schultz as a leader, luck, maximize opportunity, milestones, opportunity, reframing setbacks, success, success traits, vision, why, zone
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True Grit. The #1 Predictor of Success Video
Success can seem ephemeral. How do we acquire it? Does it happen because we’re lucky? Or, because we’ve worked really hard? Or, is it because we’re so smart? Psychology professor Angela Lee Duckworth, who studies the predictors of success, says … Continue reading
Posted in HR, Leadership Skills, motivation
Tagged Angela Lee Duckworth, brains, failure, grit, growth mindset, lucky, personal growth, success, video
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