You often hear that failure provides an opportunity for learning. Indeed, it is intuitively appealing to assume that people will use their failure experiences as means toward finding success.

While discussing inventions, Thomas Edison’s associate, Walter S. Mallory, once said to him, “Isn’t it a shame that with the tremendous amount of work you have done, you haven’t been able to get any ...

Perhaps the biggest obstacle to change and innovation is not lack of ideas, resources, or time, but simply the fear of failure. Recognizing this, many leaders have asked me: how can we learn to accept ...

Organizations need to learn from failure, encourage constructive discussions, debates, and even dissent, and move forward. Many organizations—and their leaders ...

This week’s IBJ Podcast features a conversation from our Forty Under 40 awards breakfast last week with Maureen Weber, the winner of this year’s Alumni Award. Maureen was originally a Forty Under 40 ...

The wisdom of learning from failure is incontrovertible. Yet organizations that do it well are extraordinarily rare. This gap is not due to a lack of commitment to learning. Managers in the vast ...

Celebrating success is a silent challenge many senior executives face. Real progress—and lasting resilience—requires recognizing what’s going well. Yet, business and leadership literature has long ...

February 4, 2024, was a tough day. That is the day I hung my red webbing in Dalton, Georgia. If you know, you know. For months I prepared, trying to ready myself both mentally and physically for being ...

Owning and repairing a first car teaches the importance of resilience and learning from failure. Ditto for the value of patience, resourcefulness and knowing when to let go. Much like automotive ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Sometimes you try really hard at something and you fail. Failure is a fact of life, and it happens even to the most successful people at some ...