Dealing with Adversity (1): The Process

What works in the business world, does not always work in real life. In life, most people rarely get a second grand opportunity to climb the social-economic ladder of success.

Compass Rules:

1. Know the big picture before making a move

• Understand how things work and how things connects from an inside to outside view and from a top to bottom view
• Recognize the positive points and the negative points of the situation
• Test the decision with "what-if" situations.

2. Record your decisions.

• At the end of the project launch (or the business year), review your decisions.
  
• Learn from it.
• Focus on improving your strategy and your execution

3. Gain as much relevant experience as soon as possible

• Experience results
  

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Here is an interesting article on recovering from failure

In summary, one learns the following:

1. What does not kill you, will only makes you strong;.
2. The key to being strong is learning from that experience; and .
3. It is better to know the big tangible picture and the exceptions before making a strategic move.

"While the amateurs learn the rules and tricks,
the professionals always know the big tangible picture
and the exceptions to the situation before making a strategic move. ..."
- a paraphrase from a nameless strategist

Do you know the big tangible picture and the exceptions to the rules of your terrain and beyond?

"In planning never a useless move;
in strategy, no step is in vain." - Chen Hao

How can someone properly plan anything relevant when he/she does not know the big picture? What are the chances of him or her succeeding with that plan on the long run?