Episode 295: Learning from Pain via Post-Mortems (FS295)
The Fizzle Show
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4.8 • 648 Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2018
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Shownotes: http://fizzleshow.com/295
What is the best way to ensure we do not make the same mistakes twice? How can reviews and retrospectives teach us for the future? How can you really execute the best type of post-mortem?
During the life of an entrepreneur it is pretty much a given that there will be successes and failures over the years. We are sure you'll agree that the best way to increase the number of successes as time goes by is to learn from past failures. That’s where the idea of the post-mortem comes in!
In this episode, we break down why post-mortems are necessary, how they really function, and exactly how they can be practically applied to different business models.
Today on the show we are joined by our friend, Aiden Fishbein, who came up with the concept for today’s show. He really leads the discussion and lays out some great frameworks for approaching this task.
We also talk about the risk of over analysis, post-mortems as a symptom of your companies communication habits, and how even the worst failure can have a silver lining to carry forward.
For this great conversation be sure to tune in!
Key Points From This Episode:
• The value of a postmortem and how this helps when starting something new. [0:04:01.5]
• Aiden’s early work, experiences and how he built his portfolio. [0:07:40.8]
• Duplicating success and learning from mistakes through retrospectives. [0:11:15.1]
• Setting out your ideal clients and slowly getting closer to these. [0:15:52.8]
• Balancing risks and calculated strategies as an entrepreneur. [0:19:25.4]
• Practical application of this idea across different types of business. [0:24:17.7]
• The usefulness of striving for objectivity on your projects. [0:33:20.3]
• Finding the silver lining in a bad project. [0:37:02.3]
• Year end round ups and learning from the past. [0:41:10.2]
• The postmortem cheat sheet and checking off the list. [0:45:55.7]
• Communication and its centrality to the success of an organization. [0:53:02.8]
• And much more!
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
• Fizzle — https://fizzle.co/
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• Aiden Fishbein — https://www.linkedin.com/in/aiden-fishbein-05156830
• Tony Robbins — https://www.tonyrobbins.com/
• Dan Tocchini — http://dantocchini.com/
• Episode 295 — http://fizzleshow.com/295
• Steph Crowder on Twitter — https://twitter.com/stephcrowder_
• Corbett Barr on Twitter — https://twitter.com/CorbettBarr
• Chase Reeves on Twitter — https://twitter.com/chase_reeves
• Fizzle Sparkline — https://fizzle.co/sparkline
• Fizzle Goals Course — https://fizzle.co/courses/goals
• Fizzle Journaling Course — https://fizzle.co/courses/journal
• Fizzle Try 5 — http://fizzle.co/try5
• Fizzle Essentials of Web Design Course — https://fizzle.co/library/essentials-of-website-design-for-business-builders
• Fizzle Website Tune Up Curse — https://fizzle.co/courses/tuneup
• Fizzle Roadmap — https://fizzle.co/sparkline/small-business-roadmap-1-clarity
• Start A Blog That Matters Course — https://fizzle.co/start-a-blog-that-matters
• Fizzle 80/20 Copywriting Guide — https://fizzle.co/sparkline/writing-copy-for-web
• Fizzle Toolkit — https://fizzle.co/toolkit
• Fizzle Craft + Commerce — https://fizzle.co/sparkline/craft-commerce
• Fizzle Project Management for Entrepreneurs — https://fizzle.co/sparkline/project-management-for-entrepreneurs
• Fizzle Hosting — https://fizzle.co/hosting
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Fizzle Show. |
| 0:09.3 | What is up, everybody? It is the Fizzle Show. It's that time again where Chase Reeves gets to yell into a microphone while his baby |
| 0:21.2 | sleeps in another room, I guess. And I get excited because today, like every day on the Fizzle |
| 0:26.9 | show, we are talking about things that are important and relevant to small business owners, |
| 0:31.2 | people who are earning a living doing something they actually care about. It is possible. |
| 0:35.3 | It is possible. But it is not a guarantee that you are going to find success easy in making your own business, right? |
| 0:43.9 | So we talk about topics that we see in the real world entrepreneurs who are actually putting their butt on the line to build something need to know about this kind of stuff. So I get fired up because I work with entrepreneurs all the time. All my best friends |
| 0:58.2 | are really entrepreneurial. And we all have like, you know, our little campfire sessions where |
| 1:03.0 | it's like, we blow a little smoke and it's like, dude, what are you learning? What's going |
| 1:08.4 | on with you? Is email still the same? What's about like you doing any thing on social? |
| 1:12.3 | Anything changing there? |
| 1:13.1 | What's your next project? |
| 1:14.4 | You know, it gets more important than social media and email really quick. |
| 1:18.2 | It gets into what's the product? |
| 1:19.7 | How's your sales going? |
| 1:21.6 | Like what's the next thing you need to do? |
| 1:23.2 | What's next for you? |
| 1:24.3 | Right? |
| 1:24.9 | These are all huge questions. And I love having them with my boys, |
| 1:29.1 | around the campfire and my girls, |
| 1:31.0 | and what we do on the Fizzle show |
| 1:32.7 | is kind of bring some of that out. |
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