Every major difficulty you face in life is a fork in the road. You choose which track you will head down, toward breakdown or breakthrough. Dick Biggs, a consultant who helps Fortune 500 companies improve profits and increase productivity, writes that all of us have unfair experiences; as a result, some people merely exist and [...]
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Are you moving toward breakdown … or breakthrough?
February 3rd, 2010 · 39 Comments
Tags: Attitude · Failing Forward · Maxwell Daily Reader · mistakes · success
On success and stupidity – TAKE TWO
January 28th, 2010 · 49 Comments
We are all failures – at least, all the best of us are.
~James Barrie, author of Peter Pan
This is one of the many thoughts and quotes that I’ve been posting on Twitter this week on the subject of failure. Some others:
There are many ways to be a winner, but only one way to be a loser:
to [...]
Tags: Failing Forward · mistakes · personal · quotes and illustrations · success
Stupid is as stupid does…
March 13th, 2009 · 205 Comments
The reason I started blogging was to teach leadership and try to add value to you, my readers. But in today’s post I need to tell you something of a more personal nature.
I’ve done a lot of stupid things in my life. Early in my marriage I would win arguments with my wife, [...]
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