If you pay attention to business failures, you may start to perceive what some call “dead ends onto right paths.” Here are a few Harvey McKay gave in his classic business book:
1) Walt Disney was once fired by a newspaper. For what? For lack of ideas.
2) MGM’s memo after Fred Astaire’s screen test said: Can’t act. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.
3) Beethoven’s violin teacher declared him hopeless as a composer.
This is Howard Butt Jr. of Laity Lodge. If that list of dead ends doesn’t encourage you, have someone check your pulse. Failures do not a career UN—make. On the contrary: A dead end is your signal to make a RIGHT turn … into the high calling of our daily work.
“My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.”
Psalm 73:26
