The Corner Office: How Top CEOs Made It and How You Can Too

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Adam Bryant. The Corner Office: How Top CEOs Made It and How You Can Too

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Daniel P. Amos, CEO, Aflac

Richard Anderson, CEO, Delta Air Lines

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John Donahoe, the CEO of eBay, said he learned from a mentor how to be more accepting of failure.

“A really valuable piece of advice early in my career was from a guy named Kent Thiry, who was another of my early bosses and is now CEO at DaVita,” Donahoe said. “I didn’t know it at the time, but I was suffering from a real fear of failure. Kent said, ‘You know, John, your challenge is you’re trying to bat.900.’ And he said, ‘When you were in college, you got a lot of A’s. You could get 90, 95 percent right. When you took your first job as an analyst, you were really successful and felt like you were batting.900.’

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