Later, she brought her experience in the energy sector to banking, where she spent 19 years determining what makes companies succeed and fail.
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Indeed, if banks were unregulated, and as such free to succeed and fail, investors and financial institution creditors would make sure that none grew too large given the losses they would suffer in a free market for any bank committing ghastly errors.
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Back in South Africa he represented mining companies while studying what made some mines succeed and others fail.
If social entrepreneurs are in the business of creating deliberate disruptive design to solve pressing social issues, it is imperative to understand why the changes they seek to bring about succeed and why so many fail.
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We want someone to push us to try again, and fail again, and fail better, until we succeed, to paraphrase Winston Churchill.
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K. decided it was time, he kept things simple and divided his businesses so that his children can separately get on with their lives and still remain family, with each to succeed or fail on their own, with no claims and no impasse.
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He has the right to fail and to succeed, to never go hungry, to never be homeless and to always have a community and a family.
Contrast that with the stench of failure in the drug industry, where experimental medicines are more likely to fail than succeed, and pharmaceutical developers like Pfizer have seen their biggest bets bite the dust.
Contrast that with the stench of failure in the drug industry, where experimental medicines are more likely to fail than succeed, and pharmaceutical developers like Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ) have seen their biggest bets bite the dust.
The next step is rigorously tracking our decisions and consciously wondering why they succeed or fail.
According to Ismail, they need to create environments allowing start ups to succeed and make it easier for them to fail.
The goal of the conference was to discuss why startups fail and how they can succeed.
You could make an argument that successful organizations will experiment broadly, succeed or fail quickly, accept the learning and move on to the next thing.
Over the next two months, I will share my fascination about who gets hired, where they get hired, how much it costs and most importantly whether they will succeed or fail, with readers here at Forbes Sports Money.
Labour's Mike Gapes said it was in Britain's "national interest" for the eurozone to succeed, and claimed Conservative MPs wanted the euro to fail because they were opposed to monetary union.
But despite disagreements over the timeline, most analysts and industry insiders maintain two views: that development of the broadband market is inevitable, and that each technology won't necessarily succeed or fail at the expense of others.
Whether you support the Affordable Care Act or not, the law is here to stay and deserves to be given a chance to either succeed or fail.
It was launched, in 2000, by Neil Clark Warren, a clinical psychologist who had spent three decades treating and studying married couples and working out theories about what made their marriages succeed or fail.
And since public policy can have an impact on whether startups succeed or fail, it should matter to their investors too.
How you define your goal and what the goal means to you determine more than anything else whether you succeed or fail.
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In recounting his success, Mr. Khosla is adamant that having a firm and well-thought-out willingness to fail gave him the ability to succeed.
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But it is to say that rather than try to do the impossible, whereby we try to abolish reality through regulations that won't work, we should make plain that going forward "buyer beware" is real, that no mistakes will be cushioned by politicians, and that just as investors are free to succeed, they're also free to fail.
Of course, some will fail and they can be paid off with a monthly sum, but most will succeed given the resources.
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Once Kennedy committed the money, succeed or fail, everybody knew it was going to be the Next Big Thing for a decade, and dominate technology.
In a serious bout of deflation, a central bank acting alone may fail to halt deflation, but if a central bank and government act jointly they will surely succeed.
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