A Successful Failure

Here’s a couple of interesting reads for you. Start with Graham Oakes article “There’s no success like Failure…” Then move over to the CMS Watch to read a review on Graham’s article. I had dinner with Graham a few months back in Denmark at cmf2006 and found him very knowledgeable on the subject of IT system implementations.

While reading Graham’s article it reminded me of a quote i read a few years back from Sir Winston Churchill. The quote is “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm”.

I first came by this quote in a really nice book I read, Guerrilla Pr Wired: Waging A Successful Publicity Campaign On-Line, Offline, And Everywhere In Between

The quote is in the Damage Control chapter of the book. Anyone interested in purposeful online communications would enjoy this book. It is really just a bunch of real stories put together to prove points of PR and communications.

[update]I guess my only comment to the article would be that there are project staff that make really bad decisions. Follow guidance from experienced professionals and they should assist you in not making those bad decisions. Take a read at another CMS Watch article “Don’t let your CMS get a bad rap“