Many people don't know what to make of a setback. Does it mean they have failed? How do they know if what they've done is a failure? Or a success? Is finishing in second place a failure? Is finishing ...

As an entrepreneur it is easy to get distracted and sidetracked into ventures that are not related to your area of expertise.

Life likes to kick you down over and over again. In these times, keeping motivational quotes about failure in the back of your mind can be a good reminder to you to keep on getting back up. You must ...

Last week, I introduced you to a word that governs all success and happiness. I suggested that if you embraced this word, and used it in all your pursuits, you would have access to a deeper purpose, ...

Failure is a dilemma. Even if your corporate culture is intolerant of failure, leaders know that the result will not be a failure-free company. It will be a culture that hides failures and cannot ...

Have you ever had a slime-running-down-your-arm kind of moment? Mine was in my late 20s, taking the trash out for the wholesale florist warehouse I worked for. I was not, I thought at the time, ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. When it comes to personal and professional growth, failure has always been seen as something to avoid at all costs. We’ve been ...

Expertise and opinions of authors published by ForbesBooks. Imprint operated under license. There is no failure in shame, no shame in failure. However, our society would tell you otherwise and tell ...

If you’ve been around the corporate world long enough, you might remember when “failing up” was the latest concept in corporate success. It describes the ability to rise above failure and move on, to ...

Thanksgiving was this week. We are thankful for our many blessings and successes. Did you ever think to be thankful for your failures and disappointments? They can be better teachers than success.

What worked once upon a time no longer proves functional; policies that once enjoyed consensus now evoke multivarious complaints; procedures that long proved availing suddenly seem dysfunctional.

According to the widely quoted “Chaos Chronicles,” a staggering 66% of IT projects prove unsuccessful in some measure, whether they fail completely, exceed their allotted budget, aren’t completed ...