Email: Is failure as important at work, as in sports? (Brazil)
Many leaders urge their teams to make mistakes, to embrace failures. Think, the idea is that if we’re not making mistakes, we’re not trying hard enough to learn valuable lessons.
Even as his company enjoyed unparalleled success, Netflix CEO, Reed Hastings worried that his fabulous streaming service needed to take more risks. Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos says his company’s growth & innovation is built on failures. “If you’re going to take bold bets, they’re going to be experiments. You won’t know ahead of time if they’re going to work. Experiments are by their very nature prone to failure. But a few big successes compensate for dozens of things that didn’t work.”
Messages from CEOs are easy to understand but hard to put into practice, to achieve real invention & creativity. Guess, when we fail, we learn to evolve as fast as our world. So, what’s the right way to be wrong? Which techniques help understand the correlation between small failures & big successes? How can we prepare to handle failure, to be less fragile?
A belief, a mindset of playing to win vs. playing not to lose is critical. Creating the permission to fail is energising & inspiring. Ultimately, there is no learning without failing, no success without setbacks.
