Failure is NOT the Opposite of Success

"The Bob Dylan line always appealed to me: 'There's no success like failure and failure is no success at all.' It was a while before I understood it. Leaders need the ability to fail and then get up and go on. It doesn't matter if you don't learn from the failure. But it does matter that you get up and get on."  Bob Geldof


The perfect example of this view of life is Steve Jobs of Apple, today named by Fortune magazine as its CEO of The Decade:(http://money.cnn.com/2009/11/04/technology/steve_jobs_ceo_decade.fortune/index.htm).

How's this for a gripping corporate story line: Youthful founder gets booted from his company in the 1980s, returns in the 1990s, and in the following decade survives two brushes with death, one securities-law scandal, an also-ran product lineup, and his own often unpleasant demeanour to become the dominant personality in four distinct industries, a billionaire many times over, and CEO of the most valuable company in Silicon Valley.