One of my favorite lines, "If at first you don't succeed, try something you've already been successful at and then build on it. And if someone tells you it's impossible, then look them in the face and say "Nothing is Impossible! It just hasn't been invented yet. Let's just invent it!""
Doubting Thomases...they're prevalent in any organization and it takes building on some wave of success to keep them in line. I would reward people for screwing up, even if only for the reason they're trying, taking the plunge and diving into the deep end to see what will come to the surface. If you don't try you don't know if it's possible and if you do the same old same old then you'll get the same results and few companies can survive long term on that.
I'm a Shadow Coach™. We are anthropologists. The truth comes through us, not from us and we make sense out of chaos. When help our clients look deeply into how any organization operates and then contextualize it for their 'worlds' it will create a vehicle for moving forward with energy and momentum. Sometimes it's not looking at doing new things; it's looking at how to do things in a new way. All in all, you know where you're successful. How can you build on it?
If At First You Don't Succeed - To learn more about this author, visit Donna Karlin's Website.
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Donna Karlin
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Donna Karlin, CEC, founder of 'A Better
Perspective' has pioneered the specialized
practice of Shadow Coaching with global
senior organizational leaders.
Donna is an author, speaker and lectures
internationally. In response to widely
expressed interest to her highly
successful and innovative approach to
coaching, she established the School of
Shadow Coaching™ to enable others to learn
the practice.
Donna’s work has been written up in Fast
Company Magazine, The National Post, The
Globe and Mail, The New York Times, The
Boston Globe, Personal Success Magazine,
as well as in numerous online articles
including BusinessListening.com, The
Training Report, and SelfGrowth.com. She
recently co-authored the best selling book
‘101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life’ with
Zig Ziglar, Brian Tracy and Jim Rohn.
Donna writes a weekly column for Fast
Company called “Jumping Into the Deep End
of Leadership” and her blog Perspectives™
is subscribed to by readers from 133
countries.
She has a proven track record in
developing sustainable leadership.
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I haven't written much in the Failure series lately, but I've got a doozy or two coming soon. 
