Early in my career, the fear of failure drove most of my decisions.
Either choice, in my opinion, increases the chances of failure.
We discussed that question with Melissa Ede, who describes herself as a transgender woman, and has signed up as a contender to be selected for the Mars One mission - "failure isn't in my vocabulary", she told us before the webcast.
As I explain in my book, Critical Decisions, this failure starts with the language we physicians use when conversing with our patients.
I've seen a number of quite seriously ill people, but the one that sticks in my mind is a 29-year-old woman who came in with alcoholic liver failure.
And in an industry which is about 40yrs old and relatively immature on a program which runs out over 10yrs, I would expect that there will be supplier failure and delivery failure in parts and it is my responsibility to plan for that.
We now come to my biggest failure of 2011: Research in Motion (Nasdaq:RIMM).
Having launched 10 companies in my life time, I have tasted both success and failure.
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Failure to pay at all would result in my car being impounded immediately.
After all, what is it worth being able to drive across bridges without fear of plunging to certain death? (By my calculations our bridge failure rate is one in three hundred and fifty thousand).
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In my view, the blame will more likely belong to our failure to recognize that the prevailing business model for investor-owned utilities is flawed, antiquated and deeply ineffective.
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After the failure of my interior decorating business I realized that in my attempts to rescue it I had inadvertently learned a little about marketing.
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"It just sticks in my craw every time I hear them say it's an intelligence failure, " Drumheller told CBS' Ed Bradley.
My sympathy for sons-in-law should not be seen as a failure to recognize the boon that marrying into a great family, replete with a profitable business, affords.
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In conclusion, it is my belief that from start to finish the Fed is a failure.
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Everything from a failure to acknowledge a birthday to my own barren wall is there in the open for all to see.
The shortcomings of Fed forecasting, in my opinion, are due more to the inherent impossibility of the task than to human failure.
"This is the most corrosive failure of moral behaviour I have seen in a major UK financial institution in my career, " he said.
In your hands, my fellow citizens, more than mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course.
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This was one of the lowest points in my life -- my mind and body felt completely drained, and I felt like a failure.
In the end, I gave up and returned to Porto Alegre, embittered by the failure of my penitential trip.
Without saying so, in so many words then, my opponent was acknowledging that diplomacy and sanctions had proved to be a failure.
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And he added: "The failure of my initiative does not mean the failure of Tunisia or the failure of the revolution, " in a reference to the popular unrest two years ago that ousted autocratic leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.
It is my goal to find these errors, which typically result from biases and illogic in the process and from a failure to see the big picture of world economic change.
And it's my responsibility to find out why, and to correct that failure so that we can prevent such attacks in the future.
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