Wash Talk Ep. 71: Leadership Series — Lessons from Failures

Wash Talk Ep. 71: Leadership Series — Lessons from Failures

This episode continues our Leadership Series, returning to some of the podcast’s past guests to learn what their greatest failures were and what they learned from them.

This episode of Wash Talk is a continuation of our special Leadership Series, where we return to some of our past guests to get their thoughts on the different aspects of being a leader.

Our last Leadership Series podcast was episode 51, which talked about how to choose between two equally qualified job candidates.

Today’s topic, however, is: What was your greatest failure, and what did you learn from it?

However, for most of our guests, “failure” isn’t an option, so instead of seeing something as a failure, they see it as something to be continually refined until it works.

The following guests offered opinions on this topic:

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