It’s kind of a joke, but we’re proudly “without business plan” in our 13th year. We’ve had a lot of things not work, and that’s OK too. If it’s a good idea and it gets you excited, try it, and if it bursts into flames, that’s going to be exciting too. People always ask, “What is your greatest failure?” I always have the same answer – We’re working on it right now, it’s gonna be awesome!

- Jim Coudal of Coudal Partners

To be an HR rockstar, you need to do great things. And to do great things, you need to you need to be comfortable with failure.

Because you can’t do and create awesome stuff if you’re afraid to try new things. And if you try new things, you absolutely will fail. Often. You need to be ok with that.

Coudal Partners makes these awesome notebooks, Field Notes. People who follow me on Twitter know that I’m pretty obsessed with them right now. They’re small, which forces me to boil my ideas down to the most essential, core elements. And they’re made of cardboard, so I don’t feel bad beating them up a bit.

But I digress.

Jim Coudal of Coudal Partners was interviewed by Design Glut last year. In the interview, Jim talks about their successes, their failures, and living without a business plan.

It’s a great interview. Go check it out!

(Hat tip to Nick Cernis of Modern Nerd for letting me know about it.)

Click Here to Read the Full Interview