Failing happily: How emotions and self‐leadership can lead you back to success
Abstract
Purpose
This paper aims to review a theoretical perspective on how emotion regulation and self‐leadership can help move the experience of failure toward recovery.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper offers conceptual ideas around how to use emotions to cope with failure in an accessible form.
Findings
The paper suggest that you should think about what you might say if asked to pinpoint the last time you failed. Yesterday when you broke your gym regime again? Back in fifth grade when you flunked your math test? This morning when you underperformed in a meeting? Every day, every year or never at all, your opinion on your own failures is telling. What exactly constitutes a failure? And, more importantly, how do you respond to it? IT may be that any sense of having failed overcomes you with guilt and shame for a considerable period of time. Perhaps you are still depressed and holding yourself back because of a failure some time ago. Or maybe you just know how to get over it and move on.
Practical implications
The paper suggests further research into new and growing areas of study, and offers action points for managers and individuals in business.
Originality/value
The paper adds to recent research in the field of emotional intelligence, and suggests how these concepts can have practical implications for the workplace.
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Citation
(2008), "Failing happily: How emotions and self‐leadership can lead you back to success", Development and Learning in Organizations, Vol. 22 No. 6, pp. 24-25. https://doi.org/10.1108/14777280810910339
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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