Sunday, August 20, 2006

Advertising Leadership

According to leadership mentor John Maxwell http://www.injoy.com and Ford Motor Company http://www.ford.com founder Henry Ford, "failure is an opportunity to begin again more intelligently." When Thomas Watson founded IBM http://www.ibm.com, one of his employees made a mistake that cost the fledgling firm $600,000. Board members pressed for a dismissal. Thomas Watson retained the employee saying, "why would I want to fire the man and let all of that experience go to a competitor? I just paid $600,000 to train him."

Advertising is a learning experience.

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