Turning Failures into Opportunities

Jason Feifer (@heyfeifer) is the editor in chief of Entrepreneur magazine, host of the Build for Tomorrow podcast, and author of Build for Tomorrow: An Action Plan for Embracing Change, Adapting Fast, and Future-Proofing Your Career.

• How the bubonic plague that killed 60 percent of Medieval Europe forever changed the way we work, and the lessons from this tragedy we can apply to our own collective COVID experience.
• The pros and cons of the four-day work week that companies around the world are trying on for size.
• Why we should treat failure as valuable information that informs our next steps rather than accepting it as a death knell.
• What the erroneous but popularly repeated prediction that "nine out of ten businesses fail" leaves out of the equation.
• Why we should (and how we can) use the onset of major changes to the status quo as opportunities to address problems in need of solutions rather than taking the traditional approach of panicking as if society is collapsing all around us.
• And much more...

Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/721

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