Celebrating Failure: The Power of Taking Risks, Making Mistakes, and Thinking Big

  • 2h 48m
  • Ralph Heath
  • Career Press, Inc.
  • 2009

Celebrating Failure is the definitive how-to manual for leaders seeking to embrace the power of failure as a learning tool to improve their organizations and achieve ever-greater goals. The business world (and, lately, the political arena) is convinced that the number one topic is change. Heath posits that it might well be failure, because if you do it right, failure can become a launching pad for change.

Heath contends that "positive failures" are not only necessary steps on the path to success, but encourage greater freedom to take risks in pursuit of one's life goals. This counterintuitive but powerful title includes:

  • Engaging stories of real-life business and personal failure experiences.
  • Practical steps to apply each chapter's "lessons" and change your approach to risk-taking and failure.
  • Positive, effective ways to eliminate the "fear of failure" that can hold you back in today's competitive, fast-changing world.

Heath's insightful stories lay out his own failures and reveal his human side as a son, father, athlete, and business leader.

About the Author

Ralph Heath is an author, business coach, consultant, and motivational speaker. He is president of the Heath Leadership Group, a firm specializing in helping individuals and businesses achieve their full potential. Heath calls upon his 30-plus years of wildly diverse business experience to help clients solve their unique challenges.

Heath was previously president of Ovation Marketing, an ad agency he founded in 1978 in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Ovation was twice named to Inc. magazine’s 500 fastest-growing companies. While at Ovation, Heath’s work was recognized with a John Caples International Advertising Award and he was named Midwest Direct Marketer of the Year.

He earned his BS in mass communications from the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse. His experience includes motivational speaking and teaching advertising/marketing courses at the University of Wisconsin.

In this Book

  • Celebrating Failure—The Power of Taking Risks, Making Mistakes, and Thinking Big
  • Failure Teaches You to Succeed
  • Starting Fires
  • Resistance to Change
  • Think Big
  • Leading From the Back
  • I Want to Throw Up
  • Pause and Celebrate the Moment
  • Frank Sinatra, Henry Mancini, and Herb Lee
  • Hire for Attitude
  • Family, God, and the Green Bay Packers
  • Learn From Your Mistakes
  • Pushing Yourself to Fail
  • Break a Rib
  • Winning and Losing the Negotiation Game
  • Never Threaten to Quit Anything
  • Answer the Question, Please
  • Anaerobic Creativity
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Losing Control
  • More Valuable than Money
  • Investing in People—The HR ROI
  • Let Me Help You Find a New Job
  • Negative Listening
  • Even Geniuses Can Fail
  • Keep Your Edge
  • Confronting Fear and Surviving the Epic Crisis
  • Blow It Up
  • Why Wait?
  • I Can’t Find My Ball
  • It’s the Economy, Stupid
  • Change Is My Drug of Choice
  • Postmortem
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