Paul Barnhurst shares why email fails for important messages and tells a story about a mission president who claimed he'd never failed. The real lesson: what looks like success often hides the failures that made it possible.
Just because you send an email you can't assume communication has happened. And I love that idea because you don't know if they even read it, if they got it for sure, if they've seen it. And so if it's important I would say email is the last resort. So kind of add to your point. The second thing before I share my failure is one of the best lessons I ever learned about failure. So I'm a 20 year old. I did a mission for my church, Church of Jesus Christ Latter day Saints. I'm 19, 20 at the time, out there all day working and we're sitting in front of our mission president. This guy's probably worth a billion dollars. He had ran several very large companies and he's 50 years old and he looks at us and he goes, he called us elders. That was the name they used. He goes, I've never had a failure in my life.
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