Alex Benay

Canadian Failures (eBook, ePUB)

Stories of Building Toward Success

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Hill Times: Best Books of 2017

Successful Canadians write about failure, and how it got them where they are today.

What does it mean to fail? To some of the most successful Canadians, it was a rite of passage, a stepping stone to greater things, or even a brilliant source of inspiration. Olympic golds, successful businesses, pioneering medical advances - all came about after a series of missteps and countless attempts.

Canadian Failures gathers ten experts from the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors and academia, all of whom have grappled with failures and success throughout their lives. Their powerful argument: that Canada, and Canadians, must be willing to learn from failure if we hope to succeed.

With Chapters By ...

• astronaut Robert Thirsk
• Olympic gold medalist, wrestler Erica Wiebe
• Chair of OpenText and of the National Research Council, Tom Jenkins
• co-founder of the Just for Laughs comedy festival, Andy Nulman
• ... and others at the top of their fields.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dundurn Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781459740457
• Artikelnr.: 47905202

Autorenporträt

Alex Benay is the Chief Information Officer of the Government of Canada. Previously, he was the President and CEO of the Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation (now called Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation). He is also the author of Canadian Failures: Stories of Building Toward Success. He lives in Ottawa.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction by Alex Benay
Chapter 1: Tuning into Success at Norsat International by Amiee Chan
Chapter 2: #FAILMORE by EEPMON, a.k.a. Eric Chan
Chapter 3: When One Door Closes, Another Opens by Tom Jenkins
Chapter 4: The Failure of Canada's Indigenous Policies in the Context of
Truth and Reconciliation in 2017 by David T. McNab
Chapter 5: My Greatest Failure by Andy Nulman
Chapter 6: Failures in Public Health Science ... and When Failures Lead to
Success by Dr. Frank Plummer
Chapter 7: To Fail and Tell the Tale - A Story of Science by Nausheen Sadiq
Chapter 8: Preparation for Failure by Robert Thirsk
Chapter 9: Using the F-Word in Government by Thomas Townsend
Chapter 10: How Failure Led Me to Olympic Gold by Erica Wiebe
Conclusion by Alex Benay
Acknowledgements
Image Credits