Up from the ashes

I’ve been annoying those working close to me this week by putting the soundtrack to the children’s musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang on a continuous loop in my office. In a movie chock-full of singable moments, my favourite is the short musical sequence The Roses of Success:

You tube link: The Roses of Success

 Much has been written already about the importance of creative failure (although I doubt you’ll find a more succinct and entertaining synopsis than the one above). Goodness knows, there isn’t a financial institution in the world that wants to talk about failure right now. Credit unions and banks cannot forget that we have a responsibility to behave prudently with money that isn’t ours, and that the consequences of our actions can affect people that we don’t even know. We need to be careful. (more…)