And yet, even after all this time, I still make rookie mistakes.
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The results revealed that while I perform optimally when everything is going fine, in high-pressure situations, I begin to make mistakes -- lots of them.
"I really tried not to make the same mistakes I've done in the past in big events, " he told reporters.
First, because it looks smaller and second is because when I type on it I find myself making more mistakes than I usually make with a full-size keyboard.
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So, this month as my first book, Nothing But the Truth So Help Me God: 51 Women Reveal the Power of Positive Female Connection, the first in a series of anthologies, launches on Amazon and Barnes and Noble in both print and ebook versions, I hope to learn from the mistakes I watched Borders make.
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Through life, I'm sure next year and the years to come I will make many more mistakes.
Companies, I am afraid, make mistakes just like everyone else, and having looked at the numbers again GM just decided Luton's car plant had to go.
But I think it's right that when people make mistakes, they take responsibility and that is why I resigned.
Here are three key mistakes I did not make that many entrepreneurs do.
As a leader, I strive to make decisions and accept mistakes as a part of the equation that will help me learn and improve in the future.
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But as Commander-in-Chief, I will not allow us to make the mistakes of the past.
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Last Tuesday I listed the 7 biggest mistakes clients make when choosing an agency.
These guys are going to make a lot of birdies and I've got to get after it and cannot make those kinds of mistakes.
In my book, Power of Presence: Unlock Your Potential to Engage and Inspire Others, I discuss the common communications mistakes that professionals make that have a major impact on their performance.
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You learn by doing it, and you can't be afraid to make mistakes, because, certainly, I've made them.
Moreover, I am less interested in passing out blame than I am in learning from and correcting these mistakes to make us safer.
Moreover, I am less interested in passing out blame than I am in learning from and correcting these mistakes to make us safer, for ultimately the buck stops with me.
Because I still have sufficient runway ahead of me to make up for mistakes, to turn things around, to choose a different path.
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When I do something that I know is wrong (or merely foolish), I get down on myself, which often leads me to make further mistakes.
After my recent column "Three Big Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make When Starting Businesses" appeared, I received tons of e-mails asking how I had decided how to position my firm and what services to offer.
From my consulting with companies on rapid response preparedness, I have found that many smart leaders in the C-suite make certain mistakes.
Their study suggests that children aged eight who are stunted due to malnutrition were 19% more likely to make mistakes reading a simple sentence like "the sun is hot" or "I like dogs" than those with a balanced diet.
"I'd want to share the failed experience of Maincampus so other entrepreneurs don't make the same mistakes, " says Kim.
"I don't want to make comments about referees but lots of people said he made many, many mistakes, " Tufegdzic told AFP.
And that, I think, is probably a bigger danger because at that point, when you're so afraid to make mistakes and you're so fearful, then it really drains from you any sense of purpose or passion as to why you wanted to serve in the first place, and you become much more concerned with just, you know, being in office than you are about making a difference.
Obviously I made mistakes, many of which would have been punished, but I enjoy playing that way and trying to make things happen.
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