Comments on: The Samuel Beckett Guide to Business Success. http://www.hooversbiz.com/2008/01/22/the-samuel-beckett-guide-to-business-success/ Individuals - Companies - Industries: How We Work Now. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:09:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Scenario paralysis: are you a victim? -- Hoover’s Business Insight Zone http://www.hooversbiz.com/2008/01/22/the-samuel-beckett-guide-to-business-success/comment-page-1/#comment-5965 Scenario paralysis: are you a victim? -- Hoover’s Business Insight Zone Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:52:27 +0000 http://www.hooversbiz.com/2008/01/22/the-samuel-beckett-guide-to-business-success/#comment-5965 [...] A little while back I quoted Michael Bloomberg on how he built his eponymous business: “We made mistakes, of course. Most of them were omissions we didn’t think of when we initially wrote the software. We fixed them by doing it over and over, again and again. We do the same today. While our competitors are still sucking their thumbs trying to make the design perfect, we’re already on prototype version #5. By the time our rivals are ready with wires and screws, we are on version #10. It gets back to planning versus acting: We act from day one; others plan how to plan—for months.” [...] [...] A little while back I quoted Michael Bloomberg on how he built his eponymous business: “We made mistakes, of course. Most of them were omissions we didn’t think of when we initially wrote the software. We fixed them by doing it over and over, again and again. We do the same today. While our competitors are still sucking their thumbs trying to make the design perfect, we’re already on prototype version #5. By the time our rivals are ready with wires and screws, we are on version #10. It gets back to planning versus acting: We act from day one; others plan how to plan—for months.” [...]

]]> By: Self-improvement Advice http://www.hooversbiz.com/2008/01/22/the-samuel-beckett-guide-to-business-success/comment-page-1/#comment-5549 Self-improvement Advice Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:49:31 +0000 http://www.hooversbiz.com/2008/01/22/the-samuel-beckett-guide-to-business-success/#comment-5549 Very profound. I don't think people can catch immediately what that saying means. My thought for the phrase "Fail better" I think this is the same as "Success is 99% failure". We often failed and how much we tried to improve our goal there is always a minute error that hinders our success. -Jan Very profound. I don’t think people can catch immediately what that saying means.
My thought for the phrase “Fail better” I think this is the same as “Success is 99% failure”. We often failed and how much we tried to improve our goal there is always a minute error that hinders our success.

-Jan

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