Good entrepreneurs inevitability fail. Great entrepreneurs
fail forward, fast and furious. The distinction is not merely
the failure rate, frequency, or the severity of the damage.
Resilience breeds when you slowly rise up, gladiator-style.
The true success indicator is having the ability to translate
devastations into lessons, and then into discernible actions,
perpetually modified for the intended target. Life as an
entrepreneur requires adaptability and flexibility, as change
is constant. Success is thus determined by how
comprehensive contingency plans are and how reactions to
change are managed. This skill-set of calculated resilience
could be the difference between a profitable venture and
one that comes up short.
Quick Tips on How to
Fail Forward, Fast and
Furious Style
Cultivating
Failure: Take calculated risks and unabashed chances.
Dive in headfirst, but have a healthy aversion to
uncertainty. Perfectionism is the enemy of innovation.
There is a delicate balance between pragmatic solutions
meeting specific requirements and razor-blade cutting edge
dynamics. Skirt that line.
Resilience
Forward: Learn. Make mistakes only once. Do not be
redundant in solutions that did not work (definition of
insanity). Mentally exercise possibilities by becoming an
avid solution-seeker.
By
Luisa
Frias
Fast and Furious: Speed is of essence when decisions are
tantamount to execution. However, informed decisions
must occur, so have a pre-determined optimal calculation
for your particular projects in terms of ROI. Constraints X
Effort of Output (time, money or project specifications) =
Pursuit of project. Metrics matter and you can laser in on
modifications that need to occur in real time. Do this with
the fury that encapsulates the beautiful madness of the
entrepreneurial journey.
How to Fail Forward,
Fast and Furious
Resilience to failure and learning the tenets of failing
forward, fast and furious are the keys to continual pursuit
and eventual success. Change does not seek permission to
occur, it is ferocious. So then, the question is, how
ferocious are you?
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