Posts Tagged As Matt Hunt

Former Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak Discusses Government, Innovation and the Role of Failure

Last year I began writing an online column for Pollen titled Facing Failure as an effort to spark a discussion on the importance of failure in driving innovation in the non-profit, education, and government sectors.  Most of us would prefer to avoid failure and the pain that it can cause but to truly create something new mistakes will need to be made along the way.  In politics, a “failed” initiative can quickly sabotage a political career which is why most politicians are quick to dismiss or gloss over their shortcomings.  But there are some politicians are trying to reframe the discussion with candor and transparency.  I am excited to share my recent interview with one such politician, former Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak.

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Think +A Drink – Greater Twin Cities United Way – Emerging Leaders Event

I will be presenting “Positioning yourself for the next level; navigating through setbacks and failure” at the upcoming “Think +A Drink” event on April 29th.  The event is hosted by the Great Twin Cities United Way – Emerging Leaders program.

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University of Minnesota OTC Entrepreneur Event: Finding Success through Failure

I am excited to be a panelist at the University of Minnesota’s “Finding Success through Failure” event on March 27th.  The event is hosted by the University of Minnesota Office for Technology Commercialization and is always a great networking event for entrepreneurs or those looking to become an entrepreneur.

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“Facing Failure” a New Monthly Column in Civic-Minded Publication “Pollen”

Failure knows no distinction to whether our institution is in business, government, education, or the nonprofit sector.  Facing Failure is a new monthly series that I have launched today with the civic-minded publication Pollen. The goal for this column is to bring the topic of failure to the forefront of our civic conversations in an attempt to remove the negative stigma. I intend to do this by sharing stories and the lessons learned from business, nonprofit, education, and government sector failures. The best hope for this column would be that we are able to learn from each other and strengthen our Pollen community. If you have a story that you would like to share please reach out and connect via my contact information below.

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Launching New Series of Failure Forums on Innovation Excellence

This article is the first in my new series of Failure Forums published in Innovation Excellence.  The series is focused on bringing the role of innovation failure to the forefront.  It will intentionally bypass the innovation success stories to focus on the lessons learned from failures.  It is never easy to disclose our professional failures but these brave innovation practitioners are doing exactly that so that others can learn from their experiences.  This is the story of Jeff Stratman, a corporate innovator, and his journey to launch a new corporate venture called Orgango.

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FailCon 2013 – Driving Growth by Addressing Failure

I will be hosting a roundtable discussion on “Driving Growth by Addressing Failure” at this year’s FailCon 2013 conference.

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To Not Worry About What Can Be Done but Enjoy What Has Been Done

So today is the 1st anniversary of launching my blog on leadership, innovation, and failure.  I cannot even start to explain how much I have learned along the way.  My goal was to mix my ideas and my research trying to post at least one article per week.  Over the last year I have written 68 posts which have been read by over 5000 unique visitors to the blog.  I would like to offer a huge “thank you” to everyone who took the time to comment, provide feedback, or help share my articles with your networks!

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