05 February 2007

Three Lessons I Learned from Getting Fired

It’s easy to look at successful people and envy their situation. What you often don’t see is the pain they went through to get there. That certainly applies to me.

I’m not a CEO because I’ve made fewer mistakes than you. In fact, it’s probably just the opposite. I’ve made more. Believe it or not, I have actually been fired from three jobs in my career.

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Each of these was a very painful experience. But they also taught me important lessons that I probably could not have learned any other way.

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I am the Chief Executive Officer of Thomas Nelson Publishers, the largest Christian publishing company in the world and the seventh largest trade book publishing company in the U.S.

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