How often do you remember being praised for making a mistake? When you screw up, does the person you admire and respect congratulate you and lavish you with attaboys? I can't recall EVER being rewarded for a miscue; it wasn't - and still isn't - the acceptable thing to do.Our entire life we have been taught to not make mistakes, from school to work. Get 100% on the exam and develop a perfect strat

“What do I have to do to succeed?” is a common question facing young professionals who aspire to have a rewarding and successful career, and one that represents the life balance they seek.And will this general question, there are many more ancillary ones that are posed:How many degrees do I need? What academic credentials  should we gather, and from which institution?What courses should I take to

What happens when you have no common sense? ‘Common sense is a basic ability to perceive, understand, and judge things, which is shared by ("common to") nearly all people and can reasonably be expected of nearly all people without any need for debate.’If any organization is to successfully meet the economic and competitive challenges of contemporary markets, they require people who DON'T rely on ‘

Anger can be turned into adulation; pissed off can be transformed into hugs — Roy, unbelievable In the world of an organization, this fact is huge because, however unintended, customers get screwed over from time to time. There are two actions that every organization should take given this eventuality. Make it easy First, ensure internal systems, rules and procedures are designed to make it eas

The entrepreneur’s dream is to launch THE new product idea that will ‘change the world’.Aspirations, however, must be tempered by the reality that less than half of startups survive five years; the kill rate is high — Roy, realistAt the heart of whether or not the entrepreneur survives is the nature of the idea itself, the problem it solves and how it compares to other ideas and solutions

I’m a huge football fan (soccer to you North Americans) and live to sing ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ at the beginning of a football match and watch the Reds put me through agony every game they play.In last year’s Champions League, the Reds defeated Bayern Munich 3-1 in a match to earn the right to progress to the quarter finals.Of course the Liverpool media were all over the win, and a co