![]() Growing up in Southern California, Qöyawayma was the only Indian on the block. After all, he asks, what is all this studying and work for if not to help one another? “I want to know, if you had no other responsibilities, what would you be doing?” He says only a few people have thought about that, and to him those people are expressing a life goal. “We’re all going to have failures,” he says, citing a popular question among recruiters: “What was your biggest failure and how did you handle it?” But he has a different question. Qöyawayma knows mistakes made him stronger because he learned early on how to profit from them. “Of course, it’s not always the good things you learn from.” “When we write resumes, we want to put in the good things,” Qöyawayma says. Steve Jobs, who stares out from the cover of his biography, reflects some of Qöyawayma’s own ideas about success. AISES cofounder and former chairman Al Qöyawayma has an excellent “man cave” in his home in Prescott, Ariz., filled with a cozy clutter of art and books.
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