Hishem AzzouzHost Of Recruitment Mentors Podcast

Why Embracing Mistakes Is Key to Growth.

Name: Why Embracing Mistakes Is Key to Growth.
Uploaded: 2025-07-07T19:00:24+00:00
Duration: 39 s
Channel: Hishem Azzouz
Description: In this monologue, the speaker argues that learning from mistakes is the most valuable lesson for entrepreneurs. He lists concrete errors he’s…

7 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker argues that learning from mistakes is the most valuable lesson for entrepreneurs. He lists concrete errors he’s made—choosing the wrong market, hiring the wrong person, mis‑setting incentives, losing pitches, tender errors, mistiming a Singapore expansion, and more—to illustrate how each failure taught him something essential. He emphasizes that mistakes are inevitable when you try, and that a team’s awareness of this reality is crucial. By encouraging a culture of "let’s all fail together" and committing to not repeat the same error twice, he frames failure as a catalyst for growth rather than a setback.

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It's probably the most valuable one is learning from mistakes. Like, the amount of times I messed up, like getting a market wrong, getting a hire wrong, getting a driver wrong, getting an incentive wrong, going to a client, losing a pitch, getting something wrong in a tender, looking at setting up in Singapore, looking at building contract at the right time. Like, it's going to happen. Like, if we didn't try them, I wouldn't have learned that stuff. And I now know that we're going to make loads of mistakes, and I'm fortunate enough that my team are aware of that and they're cognizant of this is Ned's first time going into it. And I tell them that before they even start, like, let's all fail together. We'll make mistakes, we'll do it. It's going to happen. We'll get the wrong office, we'll make the wrong hire, we'll do the wrong thing, but let's not do it twice.