Tag: Failure
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Failure teaches us…
📖 “Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.” – John Dewey Some people view failure as a negative, and I can understand why that might be. Consider this…. 🤔 If you never fail, did you really give everything you could to something?…
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Be Strong – Be Vulnerable
Somehow in the workplace we’ve equated being a good leader with being infallible… with never making a mistake or a misstep. I gotta be honest, that sounds EXHAUSTING to me! I would argue that one of the most important characteristics of being a great leader, is showing that it’s ok to make mistakes. That it’s…
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What if I get it wrong…?
We’ve all heard that question (or some variant) in our head – often delivered in that ominous tone that our brain reserves for occasions when it truly wants to undercut our self-confidence – “OMG – what if I screw this up?” “What if what I say falls flat?” “What if this doesn’t work?” “What if…
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Coach’s Challenge – Do you control your commanding?
So first and foremost – kudos if you got past that horrible pun of a title. I’m (obviously?) thinking about the concept of command and control, and how as agile managers we can sometimes struggle with the voices in our head. You know what I’m talking about – the ones that say “Failure is not an…