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Games for Learning English. Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. McKinsey Quarterly: The Online Journal of McKinsey & Company. Positive Leadership: Standing Up When Your Ego Tells You To Sit Down | The LIFT Blog. –By Schon Beechler On Friday and Saturday I posted two blogs regarding my recent failed teaching experience in India last week. I shared this story for two primary reasons. First, I shared my story to solicit input from others that I can use to help me understand what went wrong this time so that I can use it in the future. I plan to return to India to teach and making the experience a valuable one for the participants is the most important objective I have.

But I also shared my story for another reason – I think that it’s important to talk about our failures to help others benefit from our mistakes. Particularly for the younger generation, I think it’s important for us “more mature” professionals to help others see that failure is an inevitable part of life, regardless of how many years of experience you may have, how “expert” you may be, or how successful you may have been in the past (see my previous blog on this topic – Admitting Failure so That Others Can Succeed).

‪Blue Ocean Strategy: Making the Competition Irrelevant‬‏ Indifference is the true Startup Competitor. Last weekend I was at SxSW to give a talk on Startup Pivots at the Lean Startup event held there. It was an excellent event put on by Eric Ries and Dave McClure. All the stars of the game were there; I was honored to be included. I have been trying to decrease the number of startup events that I speak at and attend this year so I can focus all my energy on Performable. Despite this I couldn't turn down the opportunity to share tacos and margaritas with my friends down in Austin. While I was there I experienced something that has happened to me many times before. Stranger: (walks up to me cold) "Hi, I'm XYZ from startup ABC.

" Me: "Hello, nice to meet you. " Stranger: "I'm a competitor of yours. " Me: "No, you are not my competitor. " At this point the stranger becomes really confused, it is clear that he has been following the daily changes at my company, so he believes he has a good handle on what we are working on. So why don't I see that startup as a competitor? Who are your competitors?