He said, «To underscore the level
of failure of these past and present leaders, they advised us to go to school, we did that but nothing happened afterwards.
Not exact matches
Both Eli Lilly and Merck ditched late - stage Alzheimer's drugs they'd spent tens or even hundreds
of millions
of dollars developing after late - stage clinical trial
failures over the
past 12 months.
But whatever the mechanism, the bottom line is that if your brain is a bit frazzled from fear
of failure or previous setbacks
of any kind, simply taking a few minutes to think (or write) about
past successes before you tackle any cognitively demanding task is likely to help your brain perform at its peak.
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.
Emotionally intelligent people know that success lies in their ability to rise in the face
of failure, and they can't do this when they're living in the
past.
But according to a new study, if the problem was more personal, such as a weakness
of character or
failure of self - discipline, picking over the bones
of the
past isn't going to yield insights.
To find out, the research team looked at how remembering
past failures impacted decision - making in a variety
of scenarios.
Be true to yourself and pay attention to your own opinions and values, because one
of your greatest advantages is your capacity to see things from a fresh perspective, unhindered by
past failures or notions about what is possible.
if the problem was more personal, such as a weakness
of character or
failure of self - discipline, picking over the bones
of the
past isn't going to yield insights.
Holding on to
past failures and mistakes takes a lot
of energy.
Other companies with world - class R&D groups built radical innovations only to see their company fumble the future and others reap the rewards (think
of Xerox and the personal computer, Fairchild and integrated circuits, Kodak and digital photography, etc.) Common themes in these
failures were, 1) without a direct connection to the customer advanced R&D groups built products without understanding user needs, and 2) the core
of the company was so focused on execution
of current products that it couldn't see that the future didn't look like the
past.
Rather than a political
failure, the decline
of manufacturing employment is a natural economic process that many industries, like agriculture, have gone through in
past eras.
Census Bureau data show that the rate
of business
failure has been declining for the
past 30 years, and that the
failure rate correlates 0.61 with the startup rate.
Failure to do this reduces what could be a meaningful piece
of marketing to something more closely resembling the «pink it and shrink it» gimmicks
of years
past.
So far as I know there are no recorded cases
of entrepreneurs who became successful by berating themselves or beating themselves up over their
past mistakes and
failures.
Failure in the
past to kill bad habits is no indication
of future performance.
To celebrate the 50th anniversary
of James Bond films — and the impending release
of Skyfall, his latest adventure — we reviewed the most notable business exploits
of Bond villains
past to glean valuable lessons from their spectacular commercial
failures.
«This bombshell report reveals the colossal nature
of Donald Trump's
past business
failures and just how long he may have avoided paying any federal income taxes whatsoever.»
In this workshop - style session, we'll learn from
past failures and discover what visionary technologists in various fields (from cyber security to data analytics, insurance to financial services) can do to work together and find a solution to one
of the most pressing issues
of our time.
What the Experts Say «We've all had bad experiences with these kind
of conversations in the
past,» says Holly Weeks, the author
of Failure to Communicate.
The company has lost more than $ 45 billion
of its stock market value over the
past three days on investor fears that any
failure by big tech firms to protect personal data could deter advertisers and users and invite tougher regulation.
Although it may take time to find the right match, a mentor can be a very valuable partner in your small business journey, helping you overcome the fear
of failure and get
past your biggest challenges.
Even if Lakewood was indeed flooded this
past weekend, Osteen's reluctance to open Lakewood's doors, or at least to be vocal in organizing aid, was at best a catastrophic
failure of optics: operating at analog speed in a digital age.
That's a
failure of such proportions that Warren Buffett recently lamented that investors who decided to use active funds have essentially flushed $ 100 billion in fees down the toilet in the
past ten years.
Some people are afraid to look back at their losses and remind themselves
of past failures.
Kalanick rebounded by starting «a revenge business,» as he put it to an audience atFailCon, the startup conference where founders tell stories
of their
past failures.
These are helpful.You are right that market
failures have hit elder popluation in heavy way in
past decade or so, and on top
of that the fed locks interest at artificial rate low, so if we did save like our wise elder and financial advisors told us to do, we now get about nothing at all in interest return on those life savings.
Broward County Commissioner Michael Udine said
of the many things victims» families are angry about — the shooter's ruthlessness, the response by the armed deputy assigned to the school, the
failure of the FBI and BSO in preventing the attack despite specific warnings and red flags,
past missteps by the Broward school district and Florida's child - welfare agency, gun policies — the handling
of families and the notification process «is down the list.»
But given
past failures, isn't a new idea worthy
of consideration?
Although AIdriven algorithms seek to avoid the
failures of rigid instructions - based models
of the
past — such as those linked to the 1987 «Black Monday» stock market crash or 2010's «Flash Crash» — these models continue to present potential financial, reputational and legal risks for financial services companies.
In addition to mentoring and fund generation, Square One DSM hosts a variety
of networking opportunities, including Startup Stories, a monthly interview event series featuring current and
past Square One DSM clients discussing startup successes and
failures.
Their feelings
of fear usually revolve scenarios in which they see themselves failing as traders by losing all their money and their respect and / or repeating
past failures.
Above all, our lesson plan would indicate that there has been a substantial effort in this direction during the
past century, but also that it is now showing signs
of failure in all
of the institutions noted above.
The consequence
of the
past failure to note this basic disagreement on the Trinity has been that all
of these concomitant issues have been shunted to the margins
of evangelical discourse.
Flipping through the cards, I was stunned at how many
of the questions were alike: «How can I get over a
past failure, and move my career and business forward?»
He is scouting for followers who will obey Him regardless
of their present fears or
past failures.
What does it look like to really imitate Christ in this culture, during these wars, amidst all
of this wealth and privilege, despite all
of our
past failures?
The
failures of the
past are long buried.
Jonathan Glover undertakes the momentous task
of offering a moral history
of the
past century — a history
of the
failure of our humanity and the concurrent rise
of barbarism.
But they are outweighed, I believe, by the manifest benefits
of an honest acknowledgment
of past failures.
It did not releuve any
past transgressions, and it certainly DID not fix the very system
of failure this GOD created and dropped on the backs
of Humans.
Thus the function
of the Bible is to continue correctively to stand injudgment on our
past failures to get the whole point.
One hesitates to minimize the burden
of moral
failure in the Christian and Protestant
past.
Indeed the
past thirty years, and the
past twenty - three years since the publication
of Fr Purnell's work have seen the virtual complete
failure of this approach in catechetics and in religious education in our schools.
The problem today is that we don't talk about those
failures, and so we often repeat the same cycle
of things that didn't work in the
past and won't work in the future.
Because his universal aim is eternal and his providential guidance everlasting, God has merely to readjust his ideal aims for us «to the partial successes and partial
failures of the
past so that some new possibility
of achievement always lies ahead» (CNT 251).
For the
past 2 months I've been attending a class where we have been studying a book titled The Search for Significance by Robert S. McGee and I feel that it is a great book for anyone dealing with issues such as fear
of rejection,
failure, shame and the fear
of punishment and how those issues can be overcome when you apply the truth
of Jesus» work on the cross to everyday life.
Peter's reaction seems rather harsh in light
of his
past failures and second chances.
I think Cobb is right to sense in the oldline a torpor, a certain
failure of nerve, although it is very difficult to sharpen that perception into an argument without undue idealization
of the
past.
They must not only deal with the
failures of those traditions and the horrors they have perpetrated in the
past - like the pogroms, inquisitions and oppressions that make some ask whether it would not be better for humanity if Christianity were forgotten.