Noble Failure as a Primary Vehicle for Success

Noble failure provides a great learning opportunity and should be viewed as a very lifeblood of success. In innovation and change efforts, it is only by trying lots of initiatives that you can improve your chances that one of them will be a real breakthrough.

Intelligent failure provides a great learning opportunity and leads to success. It is through seeming failures and turning failures to opportunities that most of greatest successes are achieved. It is by trying lots of disruptive initiatives that you can improve your chances that one of them will be a star... More

Learn from Feedback and Advance

According to NLP, there is no failure, only feedback. The only real failure is failure to learn from your experience. Learning from feedback means that you are more likely to be flexible rather than rigid in your dealings with yourself and others.

Look Deeper

The bigger a failure, the deeper its roots. At times of mega-failure, seek the deeper roots of it. Ask 5-Why questions, challenge fundamental assumptions to identify the true reason of the failure. Big failures may require paradigm shifts and outside-the-box solutions. But keep in mind, that disruptive ideas need equally disruptive attitudes and vehicles for their implementations.

Prevent Stupid and Costly Failures

Learning from failures is very beneficial. Yet, some failure, especially stupid and very costly failures, can and should be prevented... More