This was «one
more mistake of mine».
Not exact matches
Sure, it takes time in the beginning to find your sea legs, but that doesn't mean it's ever a
mistake to trust your gut — and I wish that
more of the advice I'd gotten had told me that I didn't have to say yes just because someone asked.
Conscientious employees won't make that same
mistake again and will be
more loyal to you because
of how you treated them.
Strategies For
More Authentic, Respectful Communication How to Build Better Business Relationships: Turn Blunders into Opportunities Admitting
mistakes and correcting missteps will take you far when it comes to building relationships, says William Gregory O, who is the co-founder
of Lex Scripta, a law firm in Illinois.
In recent years, I've taken the role
of mentor a lot
more seriously, knowing how many
mistakes of mine could have been avoided had I been humble enough to turn to someone who knew
more than I did.
One
of the biggest
mistakes entrepreneurs make is to not recognize that sometimes lower sales revenue can be much
more profitable than higher sales revenue.
This way you have
more time to improve your work and reduce the chances
of making
mistakes or forgetting.
I have learned that wisdom comes from taking
more from
mistakes than what they take out
of you.
Using the authors» analogy — despite its condescending overtones —
of kids and adolescents growing
more quickly than adults, if we took away the extra gallons
of milk and after - school snacks, if we stopped providing education, if we penalized a kid for an inadvertent
mistake, if we took away all the extra tools and resources required to usher kids through childhood, what would that look like?
Mistakes will be made, but why not learn from the stumbles
of those that came before you?Particularly in the digital era, there are
more ways to save as an entrepreneur or small business owner than ever before.
Inexperienced managers, for example, are going to make
mistakes as a matter
of course; those
of us with
more experience may become so set in our habits that we don't even recognize there are other ways
of doing things.
Entrepreneurs often make the
mistake of talking about
more general plans for the funding, such as marketing, Klaff says.
The necessity
of learning from past failures and adjusting your investor pitch to avoid the
mistakes that have led many other startups down the road to failure has never been
more important.
Many new marketers make the
mistake of speaking to as broad
of an audience as possible, but if you narrow your focus with
more appropriate word choices (such as a larger or smaller vocabulary) and an appropriate tone (
more formal or
more casual), you'll amplify the effectiveness
of your website.
Through my years
of experience advising and investing in startups (and founding my own), it's clear that
mistakes in the beginning stages
of startup development are far
more the norm than the exception.
The longer it took them to respond, the
more mistakes and lack
of attention that seemed to sneak into the email.
While it's true perfectionists can be rewarded for their flawless performances and may even think their desire to never make a
mistake is what makes them
more efficient at their job, the obsession for perfect may indeed stand in the way
of success.
The management team is now feverishly working to fix some
of those
mistakes — simplifying the menu, giving
more autonomy to regional heads to make their own product choices, and has brought in Boston Consulting Group to examine its pricing strategy.
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More than 250,000 people in the US die yearly because
of medical
mistakes, making it the third - leading cause
of death.
It's a
mistake, for example, to pick your eldest child out
of a sense
of duty, when your youngest child may be
more responsible or likely to make better decisions.
However, whether an injury is fatal or
more glancing, one
of the biggest
mistakes employers make is improper documentation.
No one sees
more questionable deductions than accountants, so Xero, a company that provides cloud - based software to accountants, enlisted Zogby to survey 400
of them about their clients» tax
mistakes.
Specifically, fans
of Republican candidates make
more mistakes.
Because software is shipped frequently, using this approach ensures that
mistakes will continuously be brought to the attention
of engineers and addressed
more quickly.
It's an interesting finding that dovetails with earlier research showing that self - compassion — essentially being nice to yourself and forgiving yourself your
mistakes — is also an effective way to get over a
more specific form
of regret, namely the guilt that comes after procrastination.
I have made the
mistake of overlooking emails and calls that were too gruff or
more like a stream -
of - consciousness only to find out that that's the way that person behaved when representing my business.
We don't want to make the amateur
mistake of getting caught in an echo chamber, such as: Just because you watched one horror title, slapping in front
of you nothing but
more horror titles.»
It's really hard to have this hard work amount to nothing because
of some very avoidable
mistakes that get made
more often than you would think.
We expect just a bunch
of people mostly living in a suburb in Northern California [to] safeguard U.S. elections in 2018, not cause ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, not help Duterte kill off people he doesn't like in Philippines, not kill off media companies by
mistake in Serbia, and a few
more.»
If I'm captain
of an act and I'm standing in the front and the whole cast is behind me, I have to be
more concentrated on not making a
mistake, because if I do, it goes on like a snowball.
The company said it was a
mistake, but the episode gave yet
more currency to the notion that the chain dubbed «Whole Paycheck» was out
of touch.
«The skies
of the Middle East are a lot
more crowded than before, with lots
of players,» Eshel said, pointing to the need for the air force to operate «surgically» to avoid «
mistakes».
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mistakes when you're just starting out «There is no sense in bearing the risk
of an adjustable rate when you can lock in a fixed rate at essentially the same level,» he said.
Making that
mistake is even
more costly in an age
of increasingly short attention spans and technological tools that make it easy to find some other diversion with a quick click
of the computer mouse or the swipe
of a finger on a smartphone.
Once entrepreneurs realize that business and life are long learning curves, they can
more readily let go
of past
mistakes and
more expediently and effectively bring fruition to their next big idea.
But make no
mistake: by investing in your employees» wellness, you'll see nearly immediate ROI in the form
of a happier, healthier and
more productive workforce.
While research from the American Medical Association showed that 7.1 percent
of all claims paid by insurers in 2013 contained a
mistake, patient advocates and other professionals who review medical claims for accuracy put the frequency
of billing errors at
more like 80 percent or even 90 percent.
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of Your Presentation» and «You Need to Fix These 8 Presentation
Mistakes Right Now.»)
You will improve your ability to excel in the face
of challenge and be
more likely to learn from
mistakes.
On Friday, for example, Jim Cramer took the board to task on CNBC, demanding, «When will someone finally be held accountable for this kind
of sub-par performance and why do corporate boards tolerate these
mistakes, keeping the flailing CEOs
of these two companies [McDonald's and UPS] around for still
more earnings seasons?»
The consequence
of a
mistake in military service far exceeds risks involved in business; life and death are clearly
more significant than profit and loss.
If we want to «win championships» in both
of those, we have to get others involved, pass
more, risk failure, allow teammates to learn from their
mistakes by letting them commit them and putting the needs
of the group above our own selfish aspirations.
We also know a lack
of sleep can wreak havoc on productivity, causing us to be less attentive, make
more mistakes, process information
more slowly, miss or misinterpret social and emotional cues and impair decision - making.
A number
of Palestinian groups, however, believe that the suspension
of journalist accounts is
more than just a
mistake.
And, most important for those who intend on starting their own contracting business, understanding and learning from your past
mistakes will make you a better teacher
of new employees; the result will be that your business is
more productive, successful and profitable.
In many companies, the cautious, error - free employee wins every time while the aggressive ones completing the same amount
of work in half the time, albeit with a few
more minor
mistakes, get lost in the shuffle.
One
of the biggest
mistakes people make is that they look for the opportunity that will pay them the most now instead
of the opportunity that will help them earn dramatically
more over time.
Coke made the
mistake of trying to be
more like its competitor.
Breaking
more than four days
of silence, Zuckerberg admitted
mistakes and outlined steps to protect user data in light
of a privacy scandal involving a Trump - connected data - mining firm.