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Facing Failure: Two Tales of Running For Office

With a new year brings the annual cycle of personal New Year’s resolutions.  Frequently these resolutions include losing weight, reading more, spending less, or getting more involved.  Many of us want to change from our current course to something that is more desirable but statistically 88% of the time we will fail at our resolutions.  Oftentimes failure comes early in that we say we want to make changes but we never even take the first step.

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Veterans Day Lessons: Leadership, Learning, and Failure From a Soldier’s Perspective

There are few organizations in the world that better understand the importance of learning from our failures than the United States Armed Forces.  In fact, every branch of the US military uses an After Action Review (AAR) process to analyze the successes or failures of their missions by examining what happened, why it happened, and how it can be done better next time.  The AAR is focused on creating a clear comparison of what were the intended results vs. the actual results.

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