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32: How to Prepare Yourself for Failure and Build Your Resiliency as a Leader with Jessica Bacal

What happens when you have a failure? Like when you make a mistake at work — big or small — or you get rejected for something that you thought was a sure thing.

It’s tempting to hide away or play small after a failure has happened. Sometimes people let it derail them or even end their career.

But what happens when you use failure to propel you forward?

That’s what Jessica Bacall, editor of two top 10 books, Mistakes I Made at Work and The Rejection That Changed My Life, explored in her books and her work as the director of Reflective Journaling at Smith College, in Northampton, Massachusetts…

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