Comments on Spooky Action: Bounce! - Q&A With Author Barry Moltz

Don'cha just hate it when people criticize your bo...

2008-03-05T10:46:00.000-07:00

Don'cha just hate it when people criticize your book and they haven't even read it? (Luckily, I put in that handy disclaimer first!) :-\

Anyhoo -

Sorry, guys (and by the way Mike - ouch... and been there); I must have missed that little detail when I read it the first time. (That happens when I get riled. Sorry!)

No, I wholeheartedly agree that

Hi Bob,I've got to go with Barry on this one. I h...

2008-02-27T17:07:00.000-07:00

Hi Bob,

I've got to go with Barry on this one. I had at least one such notable experience.

I was working in Raleigh NC at the time, and was ready to move up in the organization. An account exec in Chicago wanted me to join his team as an engineering manager, and my boss (who had worked with him before) said he was the best AE he'd ever met. Everyone else who knew him said the

Bob...good thoughts. Sometimes we can learn from f...

2008-02-27T16:09:00.000-07:00

Bob...good thoughts. Sometimes we can learn from failure. I did not say never, my point is the always part. And thinking that we can always actually holds us back from moving on. We are waiting until we find what failure teaches us hurts us from bouncing, taking the next action that can yield a success. When we fail, we need to see if there is something to learn, mourn if we can, then take action

OK, I admit; I haven't read the book. Now that th...

2008-02-27T13:45:00.000-07:00

OK, I admit; I haven't read the book. Now that the disclaimer is out of the way...

Barry's opinion that sometimes there is nothing to learn from failure leaves me cold! Frankly (hmmm... how can I put this delicately?), that's a lotta baloney!

If you can't learn anything from failure, then I think you're really missing the boat!

For example:

When his largest