Power Quote #4 - On Risks and Big Mistakes

There's one thing I've discovered about people who learned how to hard code HTML: they eventually develop an obsessive compulsive  behavior…or a propensity for it. Hours of hunting for open tags and bugs can do that to you. I really can't find fault in that. After all, you want your website to look good and run well.

I must confess to that OC tendency...after creating old school websites in the late 90s. One of the more undesirable consequences of that is being leery of changes - sometimes I just can't take a chance on a new way of doing stuff because I didn't want to rock the boat.

But we're not perfect creatures. I know that. We still make mistakes, and mistakes are scary only when we don't learn from them. I know that, too...which is why I've been allowing myself some, well, calculated risks, if you like. Some risks pays off, some don't, but the important thing is, I'm trying new things.

So why not go ahead and risk that new thing today - a new content for your business blog, an emergent marketing strategy. The worst that can happen is you get to know several ways in which something don't work. Or, you might get a delightful surprise out of it.

From Peter Drucker:
People who don't take risks
generally make about two big mistakes a year.
People who do take risks
generally make about two big mistakes a year.