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August 2, 2009 at 8:17pm
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First, all of us have had mistakes and failures. And it’s surprising how many people say, “Well, I can’t think of one.” That immediately loses credibility. It’s the ability to be very candid on what mistakes they’ve made, and then the question right behind that is, what would you do differently this time? You learn more about a person in those first two questions than almost anything else.

— CEO of Cisco, NYT interview.

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