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The way some businesspeople talk, you’d think they never encountered a setback in their working lives. Possibly there’s just no help for them. For the rest of us, though, it’s vital to learn how to come back from failures when they happen. But how?

That’s the core question behind my just-published article in the UT McCombs School of Business alumni magazine:

The Upside of Failure: Turning Uh-oh into A-ha!

WE ALL FAIL. Some of us linger over our failures, examining the wreckage of what might have been, while others sail on toward new ventures (and new failures) without being anchored to old regrets. Why do some people emerge from failure stronger? How do they recover from setbacks to reach new heights of success? What is the secret of the phoenix that emerges from the flames?

One of the pleasures of working on this feature came in getting to interview and learn from Gary Hoover, who founded Hoover’s 20 years ago and who has a wealth of hard-won personal insight for how to emerge from failures.

I’d love to have your thoughts on the piece, either here or in the comment thread attached to the article.

And, while we’re at it: How do YOU bounce back from failure?

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Related posts:

• How do you cope with failure?
• “You’re constantly on the brink of crashing, because that’s the fastest.”
• Book review: Mindset, by Carol Dweck.
• The benefits of failure.
• How well do you tolerate mistakes?

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Image via Donna Barber.

Category: The business brain, The working life