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The other "F" word : how smart leaders, teams, and entrepreneurs put failure to work /
Leverage the power of failure in your organization Nobody wants to fail, but failure is a fact of life. Most of us treat it as a regrettable, even shameful, event best overlooked. In truth, failure can be a game-changing strategic resource that can help you and your organization achieve the greater...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken, New Jersey :
John Wiley & Sons,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional) |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Other ""F"" Word: How Smart Leaders, Teams, and Entrepreneurs Put Failure to Work; Contents; Foreword; Preface: A Book About a Topic Nobody Wants to Talk About; Chapter 1: What's in It for Me? Your Personal Guided Book Tour; Find Yourself Here; Our Roles in This Book; Part I: What: The Facts and Facets of Failure; Chapter 2: The Other F Word: ""Failure"" Is Such a Loaded Word; From Verb to Verdict: How Failing Becomes Failure; Chapter 3: The Gravity of Failure and Failure's Gravity; A Universal Force; Gravity's Silver Lining; Failure's Gravity
- Chapter 4: Defining Failure: Mistakes and Unwelcome Outcomes That MatterFailure is Today's Lesson for Tomorrow; Unintentional Versus Invitational Failures; What About Accidents?; Debunking the ""UNK UNK"" Defense; Chapter 5: Fear and Memory: Failure's Force Multipliers; Fear of Failure and the Status QUO; Fear: Failure's Magnifier; Fear: Failure's Strongest Ally; Memory: Failure's Long Shadow; Part II: When and Where: How Failure Appears at Different Organizational Phases; Chapter 6: Start-Ups: Launching Your Venture in the Land of Failure; Small Failures Can Lead to Huge Success; Key Facts
- The Other F Word and Start-UpsFailure's Unique Faces in Start-Ups; Start-Ups Have A Complicated Relationship with Failure; ""My Start-Up Was Launched by Your Screw-Up""; Screw Up Before You Grow Up; Too Much, Too Soon; To-Do's: Improve Your ODDS of Start-Up Success; Question 1: Why This Solution for These Customers?; Question 2: Why Now?; Question 3: Why You?; Your Role: The Passionate Convincer; Chapter 7: Keep-Ups: Surviving and Thriving After You Meet Payroll; Fishing for Profits; From Makers to Managers; A Great Catch; Key Facts; It's Not Easy Chasing This Version of the American Dream
- Running the ""Six C"" GauntletFamily Dynamics: Can They Help?; The Goldilocks Zone; To-Do's: Rev Up Your Keep-Up; 1. Raise Your Periscope; 2. Start with Your Most Valuable Antidote to Failure-Your Customers; Your Role: The Confident Juggler; Chapter 8: Grown-Ups: Dodging the Oxymoron of ""Big Company Agility""; From Confident, Nimble Innovator...; ...To Stumbling Follower; Key Facts; Newton's First Law; The Irony of ""Too Big to Fail""; The Risk/Reward Paradox; Grown-Up Math: The Beauty and Tyranny of the Big Denominator; Your Biggest Competitor May Be You!
- To-Do's: Focus on the Biggest Issue in Big BusinessDrive Trust to Build Genuine Engagement; Learn from Others' Mistakes, but Be Willing to Make Your Own; Your Role: Trusted Colleague; Part III: How: Using the Failure Value Cycle to Advance Your Organization; Chapter 9: The Failure Value Cycle: Seven Stages Where You Can Leverage or Flunk Failure; Chapter 10: Stage One-Respect: Acknowledge the Gravity of Failure; Back to the Darkroom: Kodak Loses Focus; The ""Aretha Challenge"": Can Your Organization Spell R-E-S-P-E-C-T?; The Price of Ignoring; Free the Other F Word!