By Eve Tahmincioglu

Did you make a mistake today? If you didn’t you may be losing out.

For the next week or so, I’m going to include excerpts from my book: “From the Sandbox to the Corner Office” and offer a peek at the lessons leaders from all walks of life learned on the way to the top.

I start out with MISTAKES. Almost every great leader I’ve ever interviewed was proud of the mistakes they’ve made during their careers because they were able to grow from those blunders.

“Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes” - Oscar Wilde

The most creative and cutting edge executives I have interviewed tended to be the ones that readily talked about past mistakes. Indeed, they wore their mistakes like a badge of honor, convinced their foibles... More...