Starting over – the old Brooklyn “do over”, what a great concept!

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An employee frustrates the heck out of you. Wish you could start over? Your boss drives you crazy. Wouldn’t it be nice to start fresh?

What’s stopping you from starting over? You!

Start over – 5 ways to address the past:

  1. Identify frustrations and name failures. Ignored frustrations always escalate.
  2. Accept their weaknesses.
  3. Take your blame. What role are you playing in the problem? Rest assured you are. Employ honest outside eyes for this exploration. You can’t do it alone.
  4. Forgive. Act without failure or offences in mind. Forget forgetting, you can’t.
  5. Believe failure in one area isn’t failure everywhere.

Bonus: Start over by leaving the past in the past, at least for today.

See more key elements to starting over from Facebook contributors.

Starting over – 10 ways to address the present:

  1. Start with now, not with then.
  2. Employ forward-facing language. Stop bringing up the past.
  3. Define success. Undefined wins can’t be…

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Kenneth Carnesi holds a Juris Doctor degree from New York Law School and a Professional Certificate in International Banking from Harvard Law School. Kenneth Carnesi is the Director of Operations and Government Sales at Anaptyx LLC and sits on the Boards of The Lazarus Organization, Monkeetech LLC and MG Madison Phillips, Inc. Mr. Carnesi has also founded CICG - Carnesi International Consulting Group, a company specializing in strategy consulting to small to mid-size businesses.

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