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To be honest, this post has less to do with failure and more to do with personal innovation from within the corporate structure—the struggle to make change happen, to get your ideas implemented if you aren’t in a senior leadership position.
In 2007, Doug Hall suggested that businesses should Fail Fast, Fail Cheap when it comes to innovation. Specifically he showed the business sense of failing quickly and cheaply:
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With my wife’s grandmother’s death this past week, I was out of the office for a few days. As my luck runs, a relatively serious issue came up at work that required my professional attention. So in the midst of grieving with my family, I was furiously thumbing my iPhone for updates. As one co-worker put it, “It’s the paradox of being ‘always’ connected – makes it hard to feel like you can disconnect.” And she was exactly right.
Just another day at the office.
Today I may have worn a giant bee costume, and our CEO and my director may have seen me prancing around in it.
But it didn’t matter. It was casual day and everyone who saw it cracked up.
My friend Emily (@ebarlean21) picked it up last night, and I can’t thank her enough.
Sometimes in the midst of the stress of business it’s good to take the time to laugh at ourselves and with our coworkers.
I contend that people think, act, and express their passions at work in ways that don’t always fit into rigidly-defined department or job description boundaries:
But we’re often bound by our job descriptions, forced into completing only the tasks we’re assigned in that proverbial big binder we all got on our first day. This, I think, is a shame.
As the economy remains in a slump, many of us are going to face the bitter reality of joblessness—whether it’s because we’ve been laid off, our companies have failed, or we’ve just graduated form college.
I’m continually assured that there are jobs out there somewhere, you just have be willing to relocate (check out this list of unemployment rates).
Which, depending on your life situation, may be either frightening or exhilarating.
For me, it was a little of both.
I moved from Nebraska to New York not too long ago. And I thought I’d share three things about my experience:
