Tag: risk taking

5 Tips for Selling a Radically Creative Idea to Conservative Clients

Sally Hogshead

In the first half of my career, I worked in advertising, creating and pitching ideas to clients such as Mini Cooper and Godiva. I learned that it’s easy to get buy-in for boring ideas, because they’re not new or “risky.”

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Should you “Fail Faster” for Success?

Jim Cathcart

A colleague asked me recently how I felt about the popular advice, “Fail Faster.” Some highly successful entrepreneurs and innovators have recommended that increasing the failure rate will accelerate the arrival of success. Not true. I agree with their underlying intent,

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