Failure as an Asset

Failures & shortcomings can be assets

I'm sitting at a lunch counter having a cup of coffee. Next to me is a teacher. He likes to talk. Here is his story.

The opportunity came up for a one week skills improvement seminar...wait for it....in Hawaii. All they had to do was to write an "essay" on why they should be chosen to attend.

He tells me, all the other teachers got it wrong. They wrote about their skills and successes. He did not.

He wrote about how he, [for the purposes of discussion only]

Lacked classroom organization skills.

Needed to improve his communication skills.

Needed help in finding and using resources to teach lessons.

You get the idea

He was chosen to attend

I can't help but thing that states & cities competing for the Amazon HQ or the Apple HQ could learn the lesson

Instead of telling what wonderful things they have to offer, they might have appealed to the corporate need to develop and environment better suited to their needs

They could work together to attract skilled employees instead of forcing the corporate giants to compete for them

Develop housing that would appeal to skilled employees the corporate giants want to attract

Develop a program to attract the sort of businesses that would both benefit from and provide support to the corporate giants

Just saying....

Regards,

Slim.

Box 33

Pen Argyl, PA 18072

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