60: If You Are Going to Fail, Fail Forward

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Management, Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2012

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Three lessons from Stefan’s story:

The importance of leaders to be willing to admit mistakes
Why creating results over time helps you stand out from the crowd
The power of a long-term vision

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0:00.0	Hi everybody you're listening to coaching for leaders this is episode number 60 airing on October 22nd 2012 State Learning, Maximizing Human Potential.
0:13.3	Welcome to Coaching for Leaders.
0:20.2	This is THE show for leaders who want to improve themselves so they can better engage and develop others.
0:26.5	Whether you're a season leader or leading people for the first time,
0:30.5	improving your leadership skills will drive your success and most importantly the success of others.
0:37.0	This week's topic, if you're going to fail, fail forward.
0:48.0	Well hello everyone and welcome back for another episode of coaching for leaders. If you are joining us for the first time, welcome.
0:51.0	My name is Dave Stahofiac and I am coming to you from our studio out here in Orange County, California.
0:57.0	And this is a show about leadership, but not about being a perfect leader or a perfect person.
1:05.6	It's a show about how to be an authentic leader who can improve oneself in the hope that as improving oneself we can be more effective
1:17.6	at being able to engage and develop others and by the way be better and more effective individuals
1:24.3	ourselves and that's why I'm so pleased to welcome you to today's topic for
1:28.9	episode number 60 which is if you're going to fail, fail forward.
1:34.0	And I just am a strong believer that in leadership,
1:38.0	that leadership is not about, at least effective leadership, is not about the absence of failure, but the ability to learn from failure.
1:48.4	And that's why I'm so pleased to welcome our guest this week, who I sat down and talked with last week.
1:54.5	Actually we didn't, we were both sitting down but we were across the globe because
1:58.1	our guest this week is a gentleman named Stephen and I'll introduce him here in a moment when we get on to the interview
2:06.3	and he is from Germany and has been listening to the show from the very beginning and so rather than tell you
2:12.0	a lot about him we actually go into that in the interview and I think you'll see why I asked him to join me for this episode and to talk about how we can use failure to help guide us forward.
2:24.8	So let's jump right into my interview, wish Stefan.
2:28.0	I've mentioned on the show many times before that one of the things that I am so
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