Forbes Leadership Highlights of the Week: Everything You Do Wrong

Forbes Leadership Highlights of the Week: Everything You Do Wrong: Forbes Leadership was loaded this week with thoughts about what you do wrong and what to do about it. Carmine Gallo led off with "Why You Will Fail to Have a Great Career: The Interview." Ron Ashkenas exposed "Seven Mistakes Leaders Make in Setting Goals." Erika Andersen taught us "How to Stop Being Too Complicated (or Too Simple)." She also learned some valuable "Lessons From a Bad Boss." Kevin Kruse took on "The Performance Appraisal: A Workplace Evil That Must Be Destroyed Like a Blood-Sucking Vampire," and Edward Lawler chimed in with "Performance Appraisals Are Dead, Long Live Performance Management." I caught a cross-section of a whole industry admitting guilt, in "Financial Executives: Sure We Lie and Cheat." Dorie Clark explained "Why Your Company Should Blow Up the Corporate Ladder" and pointed out "The Environmental Opportunity Your Business Is Missing." Don't let that all make you feel like a failure, though. The usefulness of failure is highly overrated, as Michael Tefula, courtesy of Brittany Binowski, told us in "The Failure Myth: Why Failing More Often Is Bad for You."