8 Comments

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  Dave Morris says:

  I guess we’ve all encountered those entrenched figures in senior management who spend their whole time avoiding risky decisions, because they will never get fired if nothing is done, only if a mistake is made. But since organizations can’t progress without a willingness to make mistakes, how do we create a framework that allows that?

  2^nd of March, 2012
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  Guillermo says:

  I am missing this one from Michael Jordan

  2^nd of March, 2012
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  Patchy says:

  There is failure and there is Fred Goodwin.

  2^nd of March, 2012
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  Bassma says:

  Amaaazing!! but nothing new with Mr.HARFORD always come with the best things!b.t.w we want more from Adapt plzz!

  2^nd of March, 2012
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  Graham says:

  Then there’s: “Failure is spelling Hemingway with two Ms.”

  (Or perhaps, Failure is making petty comments on one of the most interesting blogs there is.)

  2^nd of March, 2012
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  Nick says:

  Brilliant. There is some golden stuff in there, a lot I recognise from the book.
  Hemmingway’s “Write drunk. Edit sober” must be my favourite; replaces hundreds of books on success methodology.

  3^rd of March, 2012
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  Nick says:

  PS, if you have the quotes handy it would be nice to get them in a post, or a pdf?

  3^rd of March, 2012
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  Motti says:

  I would suggest that in this case you failed to pick the correct medium for your message.

  Why make assumptions about how long it takes to read each quote? In my specific case (not entirely a native English speaker) I had to pause some quotes and wait for others to change.

  Just plain text (with optional images) would have been more effective IMHO (as well as being searchable).

  4^th of March, 2012