FALL IN LOVE WITH FAILURE
I’m always searching for new information to help clients.
In recent conversations, there’s been an aversion to failure.
So it’s timely to receive this book.
I’m predicting you’ll fall in love with failure when you read or listen to it.
Amy C. Edmondson brought us The Fearless Organization; educating the world on Psychological Safety: what safe looks like in a high performing team.
This new book digs further into what was uncovered when Psychological Safety was discovered.
In Right Kind Of Wrong, failure is admired, encouraged and identified as a key signpost for innovation and success.
It’s about realising that failure helps the induvial and organisation thrive.
It’s about seeing failure as an intelligence – a system to learn to improve, innovate and be inspired to try again.
One of the many practical hacks that I plan to use to help clients is called Stop, Challenge and Choose:
· Pausing, breathing, asking ‘self’ perspective questions before responding.
· Challenge your normal course of action and consider other approaches and strategies.
· Reframing thoughts to get closer to your destination or goal.
My interest peaked with the comparison of mistakes, accidents and failure.
Some people would rather blame than admit they failed.
If mistakes and accidents occur even with prior knowledge, what’s wrong with experimenting and taking smart risks.
From an organisational systems view, purposely creating an environment and conditions that promotes humans that lead in uncertainty will breed more failures.
We can practice by shifting our language to …‘what if’, ‘I wonder’, ‘let’s pivot’.
How do you frame failure?
