Part of being an entrepreneur (be it in the nonprofit or for-profit sector) is learning from your mistakes -- improving every time, so that each move you make is forward, each failure a lesson that when taken to heart will promote growth.
Structure and discipline were what I needed as a young teenager, and the military drills and lessons that came when I reached high school age funneled my energy.
I think there's an important lesson in that, when you're a teacher, when you're in a position of power, when you're a leader, be very careful what you tell people they can't do.
During our third lesson, that's when it happened.
And then I learned the lesson that when you kind of get it, you need to take action.
But the failure of Lehman Brothers should have taught him a valuable lesson; that when big banks fail, average people can be seriously hurt by the economic fallout.
Mr. Galbraith said Ms. Power, having learned the lesson that "when you're inside government, you live with constraints," did not reply.
But for the people who created the show, it was a stark lesson that when idiosyncratic talents are given the freedom to follow their personal muses, a mass audience does not always follow.
Guantánamo Bay taught the world a lesson that, when it comes to such cases in the US, justice and the rule of the law rank a poor second and third to notions of state security.
"It's an important lesson that when the Legislature throws away the governor's financial plan, it can be very unfortunate and very difficult, because it can lead to a spending spree that the state cannot afford," Mr. Carey said today from New York City in a telephone interview.
