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A list of my failures: The alternative leaving email
By Mel Arrow
When we leave a job we have a tendency to gloat about all the great things we have achieved in that role, when actually BBH’s Mel Arrow argues we should be listing the biggest failures we’ve learnt from.
Arrow offers a transparent account of her first few months at the job. Here she visualises a world where the industry had a dialogue about failure that “was as loud as our dialogue about success”.
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