thoughts you should know...
...failure is not fatal

Failure is not fatal.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker.
It should challenge us to new heights of accomplishments, not pull us to new depths of despair.
From honest failure comes valuable experience.
—William Arthur Ward

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
—Theodore Roosevelt

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
—Japanese proverb

If you’re not failing, you’re not trying.
—Alan Weiss

Failure is desirable.
—ancient CareerScape saying

thought leader university...
...business authors fest in June!

At our Business Authors Fest on June 6, you’ll meet:

• Michael Shenkman, author of The Arch and the Path: The Life of Leading Greatly
• Suzanne Bates, author of Speak Like a CEO: Secrets for Commanding Attention and Getting Results
• Lou Carter, author of Best Practices in Leadership Development and Organization Change: How the Best Companies Ensure Meaningful Change and Sustainable Leadership

Co-sponsored with IMCNE, this stellar panel also includes Greg Calkins and MC Ken Lizotte. Be there! Click to register and/or learn more: www.imcne.org

• “Dispersed Teams: Try Some New Solutions” by Elaine Crowley, President of The Crowley Group, in Leadership Excellence

• “Manage For Today, Mentor For Tomorrow: Strategies For Developing Your Next Round Of Leaders” by Michael Shenkman, President of The Arch of Leadership, in Executive Insights. This article was based on Michael’s new book The Arch and the Path: the Life of Leading Greatly

• Dan Cassidy, President of Argus Consulting Ltd, has been invited to speak at the July Breakfast Benefits Club session sponsored by New England Employee Benefits Council

• “Challenging a Patent Under License” by Michael Rader, Associate at Wolf Greenfield, in New England In-House Counsel

• “The Ultimate Challenge: Maximizing Private Company Value” by Mary Adams and Michael Oleksak, Principals of Trek Consulting LLC, in M&A Today

• “Good Products from Good Processes” by David A. Vogel, President of Intertech Engineering Associates Inc., a cover story in Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry

• The Boston Globe, Boston Business Journal, AP Custom News Online and MarketWire all ran releases on Jason Honeyman’s appointment as the new Managing Partner of Wolf Greenfield

• “Use of Patents Grows to Protect Financial Products” by Wolf Greenfield’s Steve Henry, Shareholder, and David Gesner, Technology Specialist, in Boston Business Journal

• “Forget Information Highway: Companies Need ‘Information Tunnel’” by Vin D’Amico, President of Damicon LLC, in his monthly column “Virtual Business” in IndUS Business Journal

• The Boston Globe profiled inventor Saul Palder, a client of Wolf Greenfield

• Patent Café reported on a presentation at the University of Massachusetts on “Invention to Venture” by Edward Gates, Chairman and Shareholder at Wolf Greenfield

• “When Eyeing Name Brand vs. White Box PCs, Weigh All Options” by Vin D’Amico, President of Damicon LLC, in Indus Business Journal

• David Wolf, Shareholder at Wolf Greenfield, was interviewed by The Newton Tab regarding inventor Saul Palder

• John Van Amsterdam, Shareholder at Wolf Greenfield, was quoted in Chemical & Engineering News, San Diego Union Tribune and The Scientist on the Merck Supreme Court case

• Steve Henry, Shareholder at Wolf Greenfield, was cited as an expert on technology cases in the AP Custom News Online