This is a brilliant post about the positive side of failing, and that the best failure is one that happens sooner rather than later. What are your thoughts on the role of failure in the positive development of your abilities and opportunities?
So what did I learn? Every company, every website, and every individual is going to make mistakes and fall. What matters is to quickly learn from those mistakes, and improve that it doesn’t happen again. It’s important in the web industry (a rapidly changing one) that we work in environments that accept mistakes as long as they are not repeated again through hard lessons. [From Fail Fast]
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Greg Atkinson 07.02.08 at 9:44 am
I think experimenting and risking is crucial to any organization - especially the Church. I was just reading an article ( I believe it was in INC magazine) about a company that gives out an award each year to the person who made the biggest mistake. They know that is part of innovation and how you stumble upon new ideas and new ways of doing something - sometimes BETTER ways or ideas and they celebrate the successes and failures. That’s cool.
Tony Steward 07.02.08 at 9:47 am
I love the scene in the movie “The Robinsons” where the inventor child fails at fixing the peanut butter and jelly machine - and instead of get down on him, the family celebrates - because failing is the only way to move forward. That thinking is so true, but completely unnatural to us.