Failure for Dummies

Organizations that want to stay on the leading edge of their industry must innovate, embrace change and move faster than ever or face irrelevance and extinction.  Change and innovation don’t come easy.  They require visionary leadership, a willingness to challenge status quo and high tolerance for failure. There is much written and talked about these days regarding “Failing Fast” and “Failing Forward”.  But failure is only valuable if we learn something from it. If we’re not learning, we’re not moving forward. We are just wasting valuable resources and diminishing our […]

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The Cost to Own

A few years ago, while our family was living in Germany, my then 18 year old daughter decided to move back to the USA.  Once there she embarked on a quest for her first car. Since “dad” was a long time BMW guy and that’s all she had driven, she felt compelled to go in that direction.  She sent several links with pictures of the car she “had to have”.  An 11 year old BMW 330 with low miles and a conviction that “she could afford to buy it.” I […]

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