Comments on: Original + unique = some failure http://andreaskluth.org/2009/11/08/original-unique-some-failure/ What History’s Greatest Military Strategist Can Teach Us About Success And Failure Thu, 16 Feb 2012 01:01:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Richard Manchester http://andreaskluth.org/2009/11/08/original-unique-some-failure/#comment-3544 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:16:39 +0000 http://andreaskluth.org/?p=3474#comment-3544 … Master, you speak of poets and non-fiction. Where is this Great Divide?

]]> By: andreaskluth http://andreaskluth.org/2009/11/08/original-unique-some-failure/#comment-3541 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:47:42 +0000 http://andreaskluth.org/?p=3474#comment-3541 Well, the advantage of poets is that they don’t have to “translate” their wisdom. The onus is on us non-fiction guys to do that.

I don’t know what the spirit of the Beatitudes is, I confess. But the eternal truth is what I’m trying to get at in my book. However, it took me 110,000 words to do it, so I can’t compress it into this comment and still have it be … fun. ;)

]]> By: andreaskluth http://andreaskluth.org/2009/11/08/original-unique-some-failure/#comment-3540 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:45:33 +0000 http://andreaskluth.org/?p=3474#comment-3540 Exactly. And that is why organizations should instead make their employees feel secure (defined as not fearing failure if it happened for the right reasons).

]]> By: Richard Manchester http://andreaskluth.org/2009/11/08/original-unique-some-failure/#comment-3539 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:00:46 +0000 http://andreaskluth.org/?p=3474#comment-3539 Is there a difference in kind between creative success and failure and everyday success and failure? The creative seek both personal satisfaction and acceptance. Survival may or may not be a factor. For the rest of us it is merely a question of survival.

Yet Kipling comforts totally in both cases. So what is the eternal truth all around us which he describes? Is it the fusion of opposites or the the injunction to lay up treasure in heaven ? Or is it the spirit of the Beatitudes?

]]> By: Thomas Stzzyk http://andreaskluth.org/2009/11/08/original-unique-some-failure/#comment-3536 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:23:56 +0000 http://andreaskluth.org/?p=3474#comment-3536 It is interesting the way both quotes work together. Unfortunately in too many cases when ‘some failure’ goes up on the whiteboard the reaction is ‘unacceptable,’ and the group/organization/individual quickly moves away from originality and the unique. Hannibal would have loved the Katzenberg quote I think.

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