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Admitting Defeat – Moving Forward And Accepting The Loss

July 7, 2022 • Grow From Failures

In a season about growing from errors and mistakes, it seems that an episode about admitting defeat is required. We cannot stay stationary and make progress. This concept holds for individual situations…

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Clearly Defined Objectives – It Is A Mistake To Not Ask Questions

July 5, 2022 • Grow From Failures

This episode of learning from mistakes focuses on clearly defined objectives. The error highlights what can go wrong when we fail to have them. We also see these same potential issues pop…

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Testing Your Backups – Disaster Recovery Requires Verification

June 30, 2022 • Grow From Failures

There are a few times I have been taught the value of testing your backups. That is why even disaster recovery needs to be validated. The first story I share is probably…

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Sweeping Consequences – Avoid All In Until You Are Sure

June 28, 2022 • Grow From Failures

There is an old joke about sweeping consequences in IT related to wildcard commands like “rm -rf *.” However, there are ways to avoid getting bit by them. For example, we can…

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A Car Sale – Acceptable Loss And Walking Away

June 23, 2022 • Grow From Failures

We continue the series about errors and recovering with an excellent example of acceptable loss and when to walk away. We see these appear in negotiations regularly. They are shown in movies,…

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Key Performance Indicators – Measure Your Spending

June 21, 2022 • Grow From Failures

This episode looks at a marketing campaign and my lack of paying based on key performance indicators or KPIs. This was a slightly costly mistake and, thus, one that sticks in my…

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