Right Kind of Wrong
Failure is never the objective of any endeavor, of course. Success, however, always requires some amount of learning, and in turn, learning always involves miscalculations, mistakes, and errors.
James M. Kouzes • The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations (J-B Leadership Challenge: Kouzes/Posner)
Welcome Failure A culture that welcomes purposeful failure in the process of acting fearlessly and pursuing results has four main beliefs. Write down examples of each in your team. Have they been negative or positive? Fail Fast Fail Often Only Make New Mistakes Reward Failure
Jeff Hilimire • The 5-Day Turnaround: Be the leader you always wanted to be. (the Turnaround Leadership Series)
productive way of looking at failure is as a source of learning, innovation, and growth. That means the correct question to ask about Thriving Through Failure is: How can I use failure as a means to thrive?
Gerry Valentine • The Thriving Mindset: Tools for Empowerment in a Disruptive World
What’s Wrong With Being Wrong? The Essential Mistake
Nancy Kline • More Time to Think: The power of independent thinking
On the path to successful action, we will fail—possibly many times. And that’s okay. It can be a good thing, even. Action and failure are two sides of the same coin. One doesn’t come without the other. What breaks this critical connection down is when people stop acting—because they’ve taken failure the wrong way.