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Holly's avatar

My first HR Manger job, I was 27. I shared an assistant with the CEO (it was a small company). The assistant was my age, we had a ton in common, and we hit it off immediately. For the next three years I couldn’t get her to do a damn thing she didn’t want to do because she wouldn’t take me seriously as her boss. We are still friends. It was more than 15 years before I became friends with someone I supervised again, and that was a slow process. That first failure taught me the importance of boundaries at work.

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Caro Kinkead's avatar

I'm not certain about valuable, but I can point to the failure which has had the most impact on my life: I failed my audition to Juilliard's drama program. If I'd been accepted, I would have headed from Texas to New York. Because I didn't, I went into the work force and saved to move west, heading for Los Angeles. It really was a case of "turn right, turn left." (I considered RADA, but while my parents were willing to help with Juilliard, they took one look at the international student fees, plus the cost of sending me living in London and said no.)

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