The Stink of Failure: Leave Assisting Kamala Harris' Campaign Off Your Resume

 There was a brief time in boom times when certain circles such as the Silicon Valley techies saluted failure. Essentially the meme was: Don't apply here for a job unless your resume lists failure, preferably multiple ones.

But even then those in the know knew that America is no country for failure. Sure, unlike old-line Britain, you could bounce back from it. But engineer the best public relations to erase its footprint on your legacy. A sign of that anti-failure ethos was the speculation that if Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes hadn't been so frightened of failure she wouldn't have needed to turn to fraud to try to save her startup.

The stink of failure has reached traditional Democratic Party goings-on. Genius in his observations/predictions, James Carville has called this: Those associated with the disaster of the 2024 presidential campaign will be purged from what it means to move forward. The New York Post quotes Carville:

“Anybody that had anything to do with 2024, the party wants to move on from that ..."

That calls for passing the torch to a new generation of progressive politicos. 

That call may become more strident if the old-line choice in the New York City election for mayor - Andrew Cuomo - loses. The money backing him is from the same sources funding Harris. 

It used to be that any political experience on a resume made you marketable. Even in liberal times those operating in the orbits of the Nixon administration, for example, landed plum jobs. That could be changing. Experience in a high-stakes failure such as the Harris campaign can become an absolute liability. The analogy could be the "innovation" of the New Coke. No, you don't want to be known as on that marketing team at Coca-Cola. 

In coaching I update professionals: The cult of failure is over. Don't gush on interviews how much you learned from yours. 

Thrown off your game, maybe the first time since you started working? You made all the right moves and then the world moved in another direction.

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