{"id":3241,"date":"2016-03-07T16:30:09","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T21:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/?p=3241"},"modified":"2016-03-07T16:30:59","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T21:30:59","slug":"10-reasons-we-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/2016\/03\/10-reasons-we-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Reasons We Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3244\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/hands-all-in.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3244\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3244\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3244\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/hands-all-in-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"CC tv27 via Flickr\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/hands-all-in-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/hands-all-in-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/hands-all-in-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3244\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CC tv27 via Flickr<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There are a myriad of reasons that we fail, from plain bad luck to miscommunication or organizational shortcomings. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/chicceo\/2012\/10\/31\/why-failure-is-so-important-to-success\/#1cebc1a8406c\" target=\"_blank\">In this article<\/a>, entrepreneur Caroline Cummings, offers a set of ten reasons why many of the startups she&#8217;s seen throughout her career, failed. Her observations reflect much of what we have seen and heard from our colleagues in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artstrategies.org\/programs\/creative_community_fellows\/about.php\" target=\"_blank\">Creative Community Fellows<\/a> program. They touch on team building, audience research\u00a0and change. Caroline\u2019s list leaves us thinking about what failure can teach us about success.<\/p>\n<p>Have you experienced any of these setbacks during your work on a project or in starting an organization? How did you confront them?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a myriad of reasons that we fail, from plain bad luck to miscommunication or organizational shortcomings. In this article, entrepreneur Caroline Cummings, offers a set of ten reasons why many of the startups she&#8217;s seen throughout her career, failed. Her observations reflect much of what we have seen and heard from our colleagues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,679],"tags":[497,682],"coauthors":[519],"class_list":{"0":"post-3241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-conversation","8":"category-failure","9":"tag-failure","10":"tag-reasons-we-fail","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3241"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3276,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3241\/revisions\/3276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3241"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}