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Personal and Career Development
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Personal and Career Development

by Claudio A. Rivera, Elza Priede
June 2021
Beginner content levelBeginner
252 pages
4h 15m
English
Business Expert Press
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CHAPTER 9

Transition, Failure, Resilience

Introduction

Eisenhower once said, “planning is everything, plan is nothing.” There is some sense in this sentence, especially in the current context of high turbulence with different industrial sectors converging and technologies disrupting the operations of companies. We have discussed at length in the previous chapters the era of transitions we are in and how to plan the development of our competences to succeed. But, what if we fail? This is the question we will be dealing with in this chapter.

Failure has always been part of any project, career, and business. The difference now is the potential frequency of failures. As the occurrence of transitions has increased, the same happens with failures, ...

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