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Failure

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Learning deeply means learning slowly. The cult of the head start fails the learners it seeks to serve.

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Extreme decentralization fails in most cases for the same reason… the pieces don’t fit together.

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Successful companies similarly fail because of their past successes, which engineer overconfidence and thus produce hubris as well as complacency.

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…the annual performance review should never be the primary feedback tool. If it is,… you have utterly failed as a manager.

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We all fail, and when we do, it’s easy to lose confidence. But mentors help you through, so you learn and grow from your mistakes. Your confidence is rebuilt.

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…the more time that passes from the decision to do a project to its delivery, the greater their probability [of failure].

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When delivery fails, efforts to figure out why tend to focus exclusively on delivery. That’s understandable, but it’s a mistake.

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…the root cause of why delivery fails often lies outside delivery, in forecasting, years before delivery was even begun.

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