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manda Garcia has some simple advice for those she counsels in the Entrepreneurship program at Elms College — and pretty much everyone else she mentors at one level or another.
“I tell them not to be afraid to fail, and that you can learn from failure,” Garcia, now a repeat finalist for the Alumni Achievement Award, told Busi- nessWest. “A lot of times as an entrepreneur,
whatever you start with is not what you end up
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with. So I encourage the students to understand that failure is OK — just learn from the failure and figure out what you can do better next time.”
And this is advice that extends to all those in business, she went on, not simply those who happen to own the business.
I tell them not
“If you’re too afraid to fail at something,
you’ll never take the risk to start something
new,” she explained. “A new program, a new
initiative ... any of that is a risk, because you’re
putting your name on it, and sometimes things don’t go well.”
“
to be afraid to fail, and that you can learn from failure.”
Suffice it to say that Garcia practices what she preaches, and that simple philosophy helps explain why she is again a finalist for the AAA award. Indeed, she has demonstrated several times that she is not afraid to fail, tak- ing on new career challenges, new initiatives in the realm of higher educa- tion, and even her own entrepreneurial venture, an accounting firm that bears her name.
Most all of that has occurred since she was honored as a member of the 40 Under Forty Class of 2010. At that time, she was vice president of Opera- tions for Junior Achievement of Western MA. And while she’s still heavily involved in JA, as we’ll see later,
she has shifted her career path Garcia
from the nonprofit realm to
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