Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins: The Paradox of Innovation by Richard Farson, Ralph Keyes Success in today’s business economy demands nonstop innovation. But fancy buzzwords, facile lip service, and simplistic formulas are not the answer. Only an entirely new mindset — a new attitude toward success and failure — can transform managers’ thinking, according …
The House of Marketing
Came across Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins: The Paradox of Innovation, written by Richard Farson and Ralph Keyes. An interesting discussion on the need of failures. According to the authors, in a rapidly changing economy managers will confront at least as much failure as success. Does that mean they’ll have failed? Only by their …
Toronto Star
Former ‘Lofter’ upbeat since 24-hour live TV show ended One day she’s sending off résumés and demo tapes to television networks, the next she’s licking stamps and mailing out medical school applications. Heather Basciano is keeping her options open. Summer’s almost over and the 24-year-old Torontonian is making the most of her extended vacation, mostly …
Business Prescriptions Radio
Kevin Pierce They say it is the paradox of innovation: That in order to succeed, we must learn to fail. Think of all the great inventions that came from mistakes, all the great products that were developed in pursuit of something else… But if failure is such a good thing, why are compensation and performance …
Lubes 'n' Greases
Jack Goodhue Those who want to have a better understanding of what motivates bosses, employees and peers should read Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins, a new book by Richard Farson and Ralph Keyes. This small gem, published by Simon & Schuster’s Free Press division, is packed with easily understood, interesting and useful philosophy. This …
Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette (Champaign-Urbana, IL)
Jim Dey Before automobile mogul Henry Ford struck gold in the auto industry, he failed twice in previous ventures. The late chief executive officer of Coca Cola, Roberto Goizueta, presided over one of the greatest blunders in business history when he replaced traditional Coca Cola with a sweeter version, new Coca Cola, an saw his …