Shared today (2/15/2011) on the Writing Mafia group in LinkedIn.
- Recover from a poor decision starts with – Recognize that it is a poor decision. That clears up, in my experience, most of the issues – moving from denial to corrective action.
- Then, learn from it. Great insights and great experience comes directly from poor decisions. Or, the old summary statement – we may learn more from our many failures than from our handful of success.
- Bigger picture thinking – there are many more failures in our lives than successes. I believe that a crisis has two elements – danger and opportunity. It is what we do with a crisis, e.g., a poor decision, that is critical. Hence, avoid the danger and develop the opportunity.
- Share the results. This at the very least builds a life-story that is compelling (real), is supportive of others, and develops our character.
cajrtodd
