Redefining Failure
Redefining Failure

THE FAILURE ISSUE / 2021

As we emerge into a post-pandemic landscape, many of the world’s foremost economic and inter-governmental authorities are talking about a global “reset;” an opportunity to pause and rethink the processes and systems that have brought us to this point.
Re-setting our systems with trust and resilience
Re-setting our systems with trust and resilience

THE FAILURE ISSUE / 2021

How do you define failure? Ask Fadi Farra, director of global strategy advisory firm and CEMS Corporate Partner, Whiteshield Partners, and he will tell you: failure is the omission of a required action. Looking at it from this perspective, the CEMS alumnus says, and you can go further and say that failure is the omission […]
Setting yourself up to fail…and owning it
Setting yourself up to fail…and owning it

THE FAILURE ISSUE / 2021

When you are first starting out in your career, you can be prone to certain pressures. There’s a desire common to talented young professionals to succeed; to forge ahead and secure your standing, your worth and to validate yourself with others. There’s also a fairly common urge to do it all, to do it now […]
Searching for your ikigai
Searching for your ikigai

THE FAILURE ISSUE / 2021

Justyna Belkevic is a User Experience (UX) designer with GlaxoSmithKline. She helps deliver multi-million euro new-to-market products and projects to healthcare professionals all over the world. UX brings her deep fulfilment and joy. But it wasn’t always so.

The Failure Issue:
Redefining Failure

The Failure Issue

One of the few certainties in life is failure. Yet, it’s not something with which most people sit comfortably. Attitudes to failure can vary from...

Redefining Failure

As we emerge into a post-pandemic landscape, many of the world’s foremost economic and inter-governmental authorities are talking about a global “reset;” an opportunity to pause and rethink the processes and systems that have brought us to this point.

Re-setting our systems with trust and resilience

How do you define failure? Ask Fadi Farra, director of global strategy advisory firm and CEMS Corporate Partner, Whiteshield Partners, and he will tell...

Setting yourself up to fail…and owning it

When you are first starting out in your career, you can be prone to certain pressures. There’s a desire common to talented young professionals...

Searching for your ikigai

Justyna Belkevic is a User Experience (UX) designer with GlaxoSmithKline. She helps deliver multi-million euro new-to-market products and projects to healthcare professionals all over the world. UX brings her deep fulfilment and joy. But it wasn’t always so.

It’s time to get more intelligent about recruitment

The shock of Covid-19 to economies, countries and, businesses has been exhaustively documented. But the pandemic also constituted a massive disruption to recruitment. As...

Changing direction? What’s the big deal?

When Alžbeta Budinská failed her driving test at 18 she was convinced it was the end of the world. It’s a function of age,...

An integrated approach to agility

CEMS alumnus Alistair Fila is Professional Assistant to the CFO of CEMS Corporate Partner, MET Group, one of the fastest growing energy companies in...

Innovating in style

How CEMS startup Muntagnard is “failing forward” to disrupt the fashion industry. Back in August 2017, Dario Pirovino took a chance. After three very satisfying years working with Kearney in Zurich, the CEMS graduate felt it was time to pivot.

Integration consulting: helping businesses to learn from failure

Exits, mergers and acquisitions are an integral part the fabric of global business. They are the mechanisms through which organisations leverage new opportunities, expand...

Tech meets tailoring

A CEMS graduate who is proactively disrupting the world of fashion is Giampiero Giunta, co-founder of Italian digital tailoring company, Tresarti. Here he explains...