Learning From Mistakes

Growing a Business

She 'Reverse-Engineered' Her First Company's Failure Into a Sober-Curious Brand Making $25 Million a Year

Shizu Okusa ran her first company for eight years but never made enough money. When she founded Apothékary, she knew what she had to do differently.

Leadership

How to Create a Culture That Embraces Failure and Turns Setbacks into Success

Use these tips to create a safe space for constructive failure in your organization.

Business Culture

6 Common Challenges All Women Entrepreneurs Face (and How to Overcome Them)

Each entrepreneur faces their own hurdles. Here are a few common ones women experience most.

Leadership

Avoid These 5 Critical Mistakes All Leaders Make

Mistakes are unpleasant and can be embarrassing. If acknowledged and dealt with in a timely manner, they can become a good source of learning and experience.

Leadership

8 Common Mistakes You Might Be Making as a Leader (and How to Fix Them)

Many leaders struggle to find their footing, and may make mistakes along their journey. Here are a few you might be making yourself.

Growing a Business

Think You Screwed Up? These 6 Business Leaders Share Their Big Mistake — and Lesson Learned

Too often, we think a leader has to be right. But these businesses transformed when their leaders realized they'd had it wrong all along.

Growing a Business

I Watch Great Teams Make These Business-Destroying Mistakes All The Time. Here's Where They're Going Wrong (And How To Fix It).

Identifying who you serve and concentrating your marketing efforts where your message will be heard establishes your offering, builds your brand, and strengthens your competitive advantage.

Growing a Business

Business Owners: Are You Making These 10 Mistakes?

Don't let mistakes with simple fixes hold you back from growing your business. Here's what to avoid.

Growing a Business

6 Things You Gain By Embracing Failure and Learning From Mistakes

Are you going to look at failure as the end, or are you going to take what didn't work as a lesson and do better? It all depends on your attitude.

Growing a Business

If Your Leadership Style Is Ever Judged By Others, Here's 8 Things You Should Do

How to short-circuit defensiveness and resentment and instead accept and apply tough input for the betterment of your company, and yourself.

Growing a Business

'Yesterday Never Happened and Tomorrow Never Will': Why Your Business Strategy Needs to Use This Motto

Our problems are in the past, but solving them is what we can do today.

Growing a Business

How to Avoid These Costly Mistakes in Your Startup's Sales Strategy

Don't make these same mistakes entrepreneurs will often make in their sales strategy that could end up costing you your business.

Business News

You Need to Spy On Your Competition to Succeed: Business Spying 101

Innovative entrepreneurs watch and learn from their competition. Here's how to do it inexpensively and make the most of what you learn.

Entrepreneurs

Mistakes Are A Part Of Any Innovator's Journey- Let's Simply Not Make Them The End Of It

It's one thing to state that something displeases us; it's another thing altogether to call fire and fury on it to show our distaste.

Thought Leaders

8 Important Lessons From Leading Entrepreneurs

The secret to success in entrepreneurship is discipline.