# failure
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33:09What Richard tried that didn't workAl Elliott: I want to make you a little more uncomfortable by saying it didn't work. So tell us all the things that you tried that just didn't work Richard Clarke: I was obsessed when we started the company. I just wanteEP 317 · 9 Jul 2026·interview· 33:09–35:478:32When being brilliant stops workingRosenna Bakari: It wasn't working for me. It worked until it didn't work. Right. And so then once I first started, I started a nonprofit, and that went well to some degree, but it didn't go the way that I wanted it to. EEP 301 · 14 May 2026·interview· 8:32–11:140:02Summer Sessions intro and why we're sharing our biggest failuresLeanne Elliott: Hello and welcome to Truth, Lies and Work Summer Sessions, Episode 1. My name is Leanne. I'm a Chartered Occupational Psychologist, but I'm also just a girl sat next to a pool asking her listeners to sticEP 218 · 29 Jul 2025·other· 0:02–4:3818:5814 years on — does it still feel like a failure?Al Elliott: Okay, we're going to take a very short break. After this, I believe Leanne's got a question for me Al Elliott: It can Leanne Elliott: But come backEP 218 · 29 Jul 2025·other· 18:58–21:4135:29Do you still see it as a failure?Al Elliott: No, 100% not. Um, had I not had that failure early on, if I had it now, that would be difficult to recover from both financially and Mentally, that would be a tough one to cut to. It's because imagine if you'EP 218 · 29 Jul 2025·other· 35:29–36:2910:32NatWest Thinks Like a Tech Company: Employee Journeys and Failure-Free WorkLeanne Elliott: Oh yeah Al Elliott: Yep. And it was, it was, it's only like 50 years old, so it's not like super, super old, like some of the old, old banks, but it does own like Coutts, which is like a, you know, where EP 212 · 8 Jul 2025·news roundup· 10:32–17:4429:38Failure as a prerequisite for successJames Fleming: Failure is part of success. In order to be successful at anything in life, you've got to fail. You've got to get it wrong. I mean, the first 18 months of my business, I was almost bankrupt. I put my car upEP 165 · 23 Jan 2025·interview· 29:38–39:1010:40The 3 years of failure behind predictive behavioural analyticsAl Elliott: So as we mentioned before, the basis of Anthrolytics is this phrase predictive behavioural analytics. But I wanted to know what this was and how it can help with, say, quiet quitting or surprise resignations.EP 98 · 16 May 2024·interview· 10:40–13:0251:35Lesson 6: You Don't Learn Anything When Things Are Going WellAl Elliott: You are defined by how you conduct yourself and how you respond when things are going poorly. So, you know, I've definitely had situ— I've had companies fail, right? So, you know, by any objective measure, thEP 44 · 21 Jun 2023·other· 51:35–58:5466:15What happens when you get it wrong — the cautionary taleLeanne Elliott: Oh, okay Al Elliott: Now, I'm suspicious because you're trying to win, you're trying to be a $100 million company, and I know what the Profit margins, it's 25%. So, you're getting $25 million out of this EP 39 · 17 May 2023·other· 66:15–68:2856:21When it doesn't work: pilots, reversals and lessons learnedAl Elliott: I've seen organizations reverse it temporarily. I've seen organizations trial it and it hasn't worked. I've seen organizations commit to it and even announce it and then get cold feet and not go ahead with thEP 36 · 25 Apr 2023·other· 56:21–61:2344:12Failing from extreme values, not lack of valuesAl Elliott: So PJ explains that it's not just having no values or not knowing what your values are that can make you fail as a leader. It's also having an extreme value of some kind. Here's PJ. Rob Kalwarowsky: I don't bEP 30 · 15 Mar 2023·panel interview· 44:12–45:1820:19Leanne's worst day as a managerLeanne Elliott: Well, that's easy. My worst day as a manager. So, same job, um, but at the beginning of this contract, it was from startup. I was a new manager. As I said before, I didn't really have any much experience,EP 17 · 20 Dec 2022·other· 20:19–22:59
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