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What does it mean?
Challenges or bad events can be transformed into chances for improvement.
In plain terms
Turn bad events into chances to do better.
What can you take from it?
Look for opportunities inside problems.

Where it applies

  • crisis management
  • personal setbacks
  • business failures

Putting it to work

  • reframing problems
  • innovation after failure

Questions to consider

  • What disaster have you turned into an opportunity?
  • How do you react to failure?

Another view

Not every disaster has a valuable opportunity hidden inside it.

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