Anthony Mersino April 30, 2021 Failing Fast is great right? I mean, everyone is doing it right? While I salute the approach of trying things that push the boundary or that may fail, I think some of our current language around failure is misleading. And it is causing people and organizations to behave in ways … Continue reading Fail Faster by Starting More Things
Google’s User Experience: Most Websites Fail To Meet Requirements by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, April 20, 2021 Research by Searchmetrics released Tuesday suggests that 96% of sites tested in U.S. desktop searches — and more than 90% of those in mobile searches — fail to meet Google’s three Core Web Vitals thresholds for good website … Continue reading Google’s User Experience: Most Websites Fail To Meet Requirements
Elliot Begoun April 14, 2021 Canva.com A founder of an emerging natural products brand faces fierce headwinds. It’s not easy to take an idea, commercialize it, and then successfully shepherd it into the carts and stomachs of American consumers. Brands fail. In fact, failure is the most frequent outcome. I am not trying to be … Continue reading The Unexplored Reasons Founders Fail
Jessica Vionas January 28, 2021 A customer relationship management (CRM) system is a foundational piece of all sales efforts (and marketing too). I have been at different companies that used Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, HubSpot Sales, homegrown systems, and even (horror upon horrors) Excel spreadsheets. Although all systems have their pros and cons, not having a … Continue reading Why CRM Implementations Fail
Steven Imke January 26, 2021 In business as in politics, people are too often looking for easy, short-term solutions to demonstrate action and therefore fail to solve the right problem resulting in making the real problem harder to solve in the long run. For example, Twitter and Facebook, seeking an easy-to-implement short-term solution, after some … Continue reading Why Businesses Fail to Solve the Right Problem
Barry Roos September 22, 2020 When you go to any of of the world’s great museums you will see abstract art which shows off the wild imaginations of their creators like Pablo Picasso. Somehow we have gotten to the point where some people believe their website should be this type of artistic creation. Wrong! Many … Continue reading If Your Website Looks Like a Picasso, It Will Probably Fail
Paul Keijzer August 13, 2020 The very traits that make a leader strong can lead to their downfall if taken to extreme. Interestingly enough, even a leadership positive can turn into a leadership negative if it remains unchecked. There is a very fine line between successful leadership and failed leadership. A study by the Centre … Continue reading The Dark Side of Leadership: 4 Reasons Leaders Fail
Daniel Burrus August 10, 2020 It was Thomas Edison, inventor of the lightbulb and other mainstays of the modern world, who said, “I haven’t failed, I’ve just found ten thousand ways that don’t work.” This concept is lost on many in the information age, unfortunately. Because of the immediacy with which we receive both positive … Continue reading Failing Is Learning; Fail Fast to Learn Faster
Anthony Mersino June 17, 2020 The sad reality is that though well-intentioned, most agile transformations fail. By fail I mean they are canceled, reversed or fall short of delivering the desired results. To be clear, agile transformation success is different than agile project success. Success rates for agile tend to be significantly higher than those … Continue reading Most Agile Transformations Will Fail
Zak Mustapha — November 14, 2019 Follow @zakmustapha They say the only way you really fail is when you give up. True, but that’s not the core reason why they fail. In my many business failures, the reasons behind every business failure I’ve experienced or witnessed boil down to three. These aren’t the only reasons … Continue reading 3 Reasons Why All the Businesses You Start Will Fail
