Here's how you can rebuild your professional reputation after a major failure in Strategy.

Rebuilding your professional reputation after a strategy failure requires humility, accountability, and strategic reflection. Start by taking responsibility and openly acknowledging the lessons learned from the experience. Show resilience by outlining actionable steps taken to rectify the situation and prevent similar issues. Communicate transparently with stakeholders, emphasizing your commitment to continuous improvement. Highlight subsequent successes or positive outcomes stemming from revised strategies, demonstrating adaptive leadership and a proactive approach to learning from setbacks. This narrative of growth and resilience can gradually rebuild trust and credibility in your strategic abilities.

To rebuild your professional reputation after a major failure in strategy, start by owning up to your mistakes openly and honestly. Acknowledge the failure without making excuses, and explain what you've learned from the experience. Take proactive steps to rectify any issues caused and demonstrate your commitment to improvement. Seek feedback and show a willingness to listen and adapt. Deliver consistent, smaller successes to rebuild trust over time. Stay positive and focused, showing resilience and dedication to regaining credibility

Bad strategy often comes disguised in profundity, wearing lofty platitudes that often contradict each other Good strategy is not about dissecting the ‘what’, but the ‘why’ & getting to the ‘how’. Like Steve Jobs said – ‘I'm going to wait for the next big thing’. No quickfire goals, no action bias! As someone who had done Apple II, Macintosh & Pixar ( & later- iPod & iPhone), he understood how forces work in cycles of barriers & opportunities, and that muscling one’s way through action alone doesn’t work ( like it didn’t for NeXT). He could've gone horribly wrong. But unlike bad strategists focused on consensus-building, forced action lists & popularity contests, he was courageously (& patiently) pursuing the right way to save the org.

Failures happen everywhere and it is sad that people would judge you by your failures. All you have to do is to take that failure as an experience. Consider it as the university fees you paid to learn something new. You then take your experiences and come back strongly to deliver better results/products/services

Analogy in Media and Entertainment & Strategy Consulting Film Star: Junior Artist, Strategy Consulting: Knowledge Management Top schools are mostly offered a revered seat in strategy consulting, in case of past strategy failures deliberation leads to knowledge management support throughputs. Strategy-accomplished professionals are high risers with no leeway to mediocrity. Strategy variables vary from time to time. Inept and astute strategy teams create variables that are fundamentally relevant and objectively assessed. Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner in the book "Think Like a Freak" involve expansive methods and narratives that help end-to-end strategy road map development and execution. I believe in Be Yourself, Be Rogue, Be Anticipative