In education, Sylvia Morris who turned the Cathedral School of St Saviour and St Mary Overy in Southwark, south London, from failure to outstanding success in just five years, becomes a dame.

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While IT professionals are busy figuring out how to inhibit employees from tracking the success or failure of their favorite basketball teams, a new report by staffing service OfficeTeam, makes it seem as though the March Madness productivity problem is overstated.

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It means boosting up those trying the never-before-tried, providing resources to measure the results, and encouraging constant learning from failure as much as from success.

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But its success or failure could sway Nintendo or Microsoft to pursue or shy away from similar offerings in the future.

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The success or failure of the two campaigns' attempts to remove these topics from the table could speak volumes this fall on how far the nation has come on divisive race and religion-based debates in the political sphere, political experts say.

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During their tenure, the joint-owners have endured a rough ride from supporters frustrated at the club's lack of success, culminating in last season's failure to secure a top-four finish and a place in the Champions League.

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Entrepreneurs should not be afraid to use the terms failure and practice interchangeably, since investors often conclude that startups learn more from failure than from success.

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Given that from the outset the accord was criticized by environmental groups for setting its greenhouse gas reduction targets way too low, however, the fact that even the limited targets it did impose are now unlikely to be met suggest that, while not an absolute failure, the Kyoto Protocol is still far from being a success.

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