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“Coach MacLean, I need to quit”, Marty sheepishly offered. “What?!  Why do you want to quit?  This is our last tournament”, I countered. “Well, all I do is get beaten, and it’s pretty tough on my self-confidence and self-image”, he replied. Hmm, he had a point. Marty was a junior high student who had been on my wrestling team for …

“I think I’m done.  I have exhausted all my options.” I was totally bummed out.  My big vision, my amazing project, my passion to do something that had not been done before was going to die before it ever came to fruition.  In a state of dejected resignation I was sharing my heart with a good friend. At the time …

The black chauffeured BMW didn’t stop at the Kremlin.  That was his first cause for concern.  It would not be his last. The driver continued past the Kremlin to the outskirts of town.  They proceeded along a lonely road into the forest.  This was his second cause for concern.  He wondered if he was being taken to a secret place …

“I’m having a really tough time teaching my people to embrace failure.” What?  Did I hear my client correctly?  Does he really want his people to fail? “So, if I understand you correctly, you want your people to fail.”, I clarified. “Absolutely.  My mantra is ‘fail fast, fail often.’”, he replied. As we unpacked his philosophy, his brilliance began to …