Is failure sometimes a better teacher than success, Niall?
I think it was Bill Gates who said once that success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking that they cannot loose. Niall Booker: Winston Churchill defined success as going from failure to failure with a smile. I think you can have too much of failure. I think you can learn from failure and I know from my own experience. Harsha Bhogle: Do organizations still run the risk of chopping and changing too drastically when the team is low or is that some times a necessity? Niall Booker: Well, I think it is sometimes a necessity, Harsha. I think it is Jim Collins, the management book writer who said -“You got to get the best people on the boss” and see a lot of that kind of analysis in sport. Clive Woodword, when he coached the England Rugby team said, “you got to have the people with the right attitude, so you got to have the right people and it is important to have the best people.” I always thought the Australian mantra of picking the 11 best players and then picking your
