jetmissile » business http://jetmissile.com found on the web... Sun, 18 Apr 2010 01:49:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Quote for the day – Topic: Failing Cheaply http://jetmissile.com/management/quote-for-the-day-topic-failing-cheaply http://jetmissile.com/management/quote-for-the-day-topic-failing-cheaply#comments Tue, 05 May 2009 22:05:16 +0000 James http://jetmissile.com/?p=357 Ian MacMillan, Wharton professor of innovation and entrepreneurship, and Rita Gunther McGrath, a professor at Columbia Business School, believe

It’s not failure that companies need to avoid, but rather “failing expensively”.

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But there’s a world of difference between truly standing for something and having a mission statement that says you stand for something. You know, those ‘providing the best service’ statements that are created just to be posted on a wall. The ones that sound phony and disconnected from reality. The ones that come off like a press release, not an actual directive…
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(Via Signal vs. Noise.)

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