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From Fast Company comes a short article about failure, called Failure Is Glorious:
Working close to the borderline is very risky, because you cannot see it with your eyes. It is not clearly drawn or marked. You can only feel it by using sensibility and intuition — two characteristics rare in industrial organizations that are led by technology rather than design. One step more, and you risk falling into the not-possible area. So most car producers, for example, work as far away as possible from the borderline. And step by step, they all end up producing the same car.”
Organizations willing to ply this borderline need robustness in all areas, including a robust purpose, vision and structure. That way when ideas fail, the entire enterprise is not called into question. Facilitating this kind of attitude means cultivating a culture of trial and error, where mistakes are allowed to happens and risks are encouraged. The trick is that everyone wants to be open to the great results that come from risk-taking, but very few people have the stomach for the magnitude of failure that can result. Using processes like Open Space Technology encourages a practice of working with the unknown. That practice, at both the individual and the corporate level helps develop a culture where failure and success on large scales can be tolerated, encompassed and learned from.
Thanks to Pure Content for the link.
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