| I'm sorry, but I find the underlying point hard to swallow: "Later, when [the company] did work, I realized that moment, while locking the front door that night, was when the company turned around. When we went from being in crisis mode to being a winner, for one very simple reason. I tried to visualize failure, and couldn't do it." So, because you were unable to imagine yourself failing, you succeeded? Doesn't this smell distinctly of self-actualization and other hocus-pocus? Especially since the article leads with: " One night I was leaving the office and I knew the next morning I was going to lay off a quarter of the company and cut the salaries of everyone else in half." So, you were able to recognize that you failed to provide one quarter of the company jobs which you presumably offered them and also failed to live up to paying the salaries of everybody else but you were, at that very moment, unable to imagine a situation where... you failed to save the company? Maybe I'm oversimplifying, but this is, in the words of Winer "really convoluted and it's really wrong." |