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7 Lessons You Can Learn from Your Previous Business Mistakes

We’ve heard it time and time again – 90% of startups fail in the first five years of operating. Bad financial decisions, a poorly designed business model, a wrong product for the market, financial mismanagement, and bad timing are just some of the most commonly cited reasons why some businesses never manage to pass the five-year threshold.

Ideascale2021-12-17T12:05:20-08:00November 16th, 2018|Categories: Strategies|Tags: Business, Failure, lessons learned, milestones, mistakes, positive, preparation, Success|

Resilience Rules

Western societies and the systems we depend on to make them function are becoming ever more complex. As a result, they are also becoming more vulnerable to catastrophic, systemic failure. As individuals, communities and societies we may, at the same time, be becoming less able to cope with such events as we lose basic skills, families are more scattered and communities less connected.

Ideascale2021-12-02T18:14:37-08:00March 14th, 2012|Categories: Trend Alert|Tags: crisis management, Failure, preparation, resilience, risk management, Technology|