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Article: How we handle failure matters.(management of economic development)
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- Indiana Business Magazine
- Article date:
- February 1, 2006
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WHAT IS YOUR ATTITUDE towards failure? It's a strange sounding question. Success is good, and failure is bad, right? That seems pretty unambiguous. But when it comes to economic development, business start-ups, or even professional sports teams, how we handle success and failure, both individually and as a community, can have a lot to do with our ultimate performance.
Success seems to be measured very simply in professional football these days, and since the Indianapolis Colts didn't make it to the Super Bowl this year, many are calling the boys in blue a failure. That's a little troubling. Not just for the athletes' or the coaches' sake, but for what it says ...