Tag: Failure
Lean Failure Explained: When Command-and-Control Leadership Sabotages Success
How Often Does This Happen?
It's a story I've heard too many times. An organization spends years, even decades, entrenched in a top-down, command-and-control culture....
Book Giveaway: Two Books About Learning From Mistakes & Failure
Here's a great opportunity for you to win TWO fantastic books--one for you and one for a young reader in your life!
For the adults:...
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: Best of the First Half of...
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Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: August 9, 2024
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Redefining Failure: Lessons from Serial Entrepreneurs on Navigating Setbacks
tl;dr summary: In this exploration into the complexities of failure and learning, I draw from a range of entrepreneurs to debunk myths and advocate...
A Workplace Culture Where “FAIL” Means First Attempt in Learning
Below is some material that I wrote, but didn't use, in my book The Mistakes That Make Us: Cultivating a Culture of Learning and...
An Amazing Reframing of Failure, in Sports and at Work
I love this clip of John Amaechi (also embedded below), a former NBA player turned psychologist from England.
He's very wise, and I've...
How Failed Lean Implementations Are Like a Bad Home Theater System
Alternate title: “Lean is an Integrated System. Of Course Just Implementing Pieces Leads to Failure.” Throughout the 10 years that I’ve been involved with Lean healthcare efforts, I’ve heard multiple stories of organizations that ended their formal Lean initiatives. They do so, as I’ve been told, because they need to cut costs...
Fear, Lies, Failure, and Success (and Laughs) on the Show “Silicon...
I love the show "Silicon Valley" and I just "binge watched" all ten episodes of Season 2 while traveling home from vacation. A few...
Do You Share Your Failures Like VC Firm Bessemer Ventures?
Bessemer Venture Partners - The Anti Portfolio
This post was originally written in 2006, but was updated in 2023 with an updated link and some...