Hitting a Brick Wall

Sometimes you just hit the brick wall. You carefully plan a strategy, implement the planned strategy and then measure the results but it falls completely flat. In other words, you hit the proverbial brick wall.

So what should happen? Should you be fired for trying something that does not work? Be sent off for a two-year punishment detail at some far flung company outpost?

This is not the tack taken by Kyle Zimmer, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and co-founder of First Book as discussed in an article entitled "So, Your Idea Hit a Brick Wall. Congratulations !" by reporter Adam Bryant. Zimmer instead may reward such activity through her companys Brick Wall Reward , which is Zimmers way of saying, "It's OK. You did the thinking, and you gave it your best shot. It crashed, but it was an honourable step."

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Released by Corporate Compliance Insights - May 2012