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When Failure Leads to Innovation, and When It Doesn’t (Part Two: The Leader’s Job)
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011Henry Ford said that failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently. But many of us begin again with no increase in intelligence. Or, we don’t get smarter because we won’t risk failure in the first place. We covered how organizations fail at failure in our last post. Here, we will look at how [...]
Continue Reading...When Failure Leads to Innovation, and When It Doesn’t (Part One)
Monday, November 7th, 2011Successful innovation requires successful experimentation, and successful experimentation requires eagerness to learn from failure. This has become a cliché because it holds true, time and time again. The great experimenter Thomas Edison is famous for comments such as, “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” The design firm IDEO keeps [...]
Continue Reading...On Virtue and Honor: Memo from John Paul Jones
Monday, August 29th, 2011Deep wisdom directed at today’s leaders isn’t what you’d expect from a guy who’s been dead since 1792. But Captain John Paul Jones, having been successfully channeled by Rear Admiral Rob Wray, has stern advice for today’s officers of the American Navy. Do you agree with him? And, does his advice apply to other [...]
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