“Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” Would you revise the play, market the column, apply for the grant, attend the audition, rent the kiln, if you knew that failure always precedes success? Failure is a crucial part of the creative process. Authentic success arrives only after we have mastered failing better.
Sarah B. Breathnach • Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort & Joy
...it was not just success, but not being afraid to fail that brought you to this point.
John Roberts • "I Wish You Bad Luck"
The idea of ever-improving coupled with what they learned from Deming—especially the Theory of Knowledge and shorter feedback loops via the PDSA loop, as well as the Theory of Variation and the accompanying statistical process control—let them succeed in their failure. Kaizen.
John Willis • Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge: How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future
They think it means accept failure with dignity and move on. The better, more subtle interpretation is that failure is a manifestation of learning and exploration. If you aren’t experiencing failure, then you are making a far worse mistake: You are being driven by the desire to avoid it. And, for leaders especially, this strategy—trying to avoid fa
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