THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Mistakes

“From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.” - Syrus

TOPIC OF THE DAY

How to Recover from a Blunder

Eventually, every leader will make a mistake for which he or she must apologize. The screw-up might be personal (Arnold Schwarzenegger's extramarital escapades), corporate (TEPCO president Masataka Shimizu's mishandling of his company's nuclear power plant crisis), or simply banal (inadvertently insulting a colleague's wardrobe).

The rash of mea culpas we've seen in recent months — culminating this week in Congressman Anthony Weiner's press conference to explain his tawdry tweets — had brought to mind a mistake-fuelled media frenzy from my past: Howard Dean's famous scream, and the lessons we learned from it.

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