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Book SynopsisThe Hill Times: Best Books of 2017Successful 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 La
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A quirky, likeable analysis of why we so often get success and failure wrong. * Backlock's Reporter *
Table of Contents
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
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