How to recover from
setbacks
Even good managers have setbacks during their career, but the
best managers recover from them quickly and go on to do even
better. Here are some comments on coping with a reverse in your
fortunes:
- ‘Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail
better’. Samuel Becket - ‘Regret nothing that’s happened’. Guy Browning(2006)
- ‘Dry one’s eyes and laugh at a fall and baffled get up and
begin again’. Robert Browning - ‘The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it’.
Epicurus
Capturing these and other thoughts, the ten things you can do to
recover from a setback are:
- Learn from what has happened.
- If you have made a mistake, analyse how and why you did
so and how you can avoid making it again.
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