Resilience: bouncing back from failure

The pressure to avoid failure can stymie success. Entrepreneurs of all ages and stages draw good energy from the prospect of success and bad from the terror of failure.

Keeping perspective is one way of maintaining energy and balance while facing the demands and challenges of starting and scaling up a business. Contrary to popular belief, there are no "overnight successes". It takes hard work, commitment and focus. You also need to test, learn and tweak and acknowledge it is really hard to do it alone. The old adage that it's lonely at the top is nothing compared to the loneliness at the bottom!

Using the Humble Pie story, my business that ultimately failed, @sylvanacaloni and I designed and facilitated a workshop hosted by LSE Generate for its Accelerator program. The interactive workshop was unique in that the business was real. I shared my experiences and what I learned, warts and all. Coupled with Sylvana's long experience as a coach and corporate analyst and the participants frankness, all made for an engaging and entertaining educational experience.

The bottom line?

Success comes from

• managing many moving parts
• improving the odds by shifting your relationship to, and interpretation of, failure.
• pulling a trusted and mutually respected team together
• enlisting the experience and impartial perspectives of a mentor or a coach and
• last, but by no means least, recognising that you must truly know yourself and what makes you tick.

Our book, Humble Crumbles is due to be published before Christmas.

If you would like to talk about how we can help you build and transform your business call me at +44 7867501492 or email [email protected] or Sylvana Caloni at +44 79529068133 or email [email protected]

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