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I grew up around airplanes and even flew a bit myself. The business of flying is rife with life lessons and especially leadership lessons. So when colleague and fellow blogger Andrew Wargo offered to do a guest column on leadership and piloting, we were quick to seize the offer. We hope you enjoy his work [...]
Continue Reading...Henry 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...Successful 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 [...]
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