Failure and Learning

According to Randy Komisar, what distinguishes the Silicon Valley is not its successes, but the way in which it deals with failures. The Valley is about experimentation, innovation, and taking new risks.

Social media and its viral platform cousins have changed the dynamics of public relations crisis.

The very act of making decisions depletes our ability to make them well. So how do we navigate a world of endless choice?

You have to celebrate with equal gusto whether the project is a failure or a success — @charleneli I’m not asking that you just accept failure; instead, I’m asking that you make your organization resilient in the face of failure...

TED Talks Diana Laufenberg shares 3 surprising things she has learned about teaching -- including a key insight about learning from mistakes.

Why our children’s success — and happiness — may depend less on perfect performance than on learning how to deal with failure.

Indecisiveness is a productivity killer. We look at the science of decision-making, and how you can make better choices.

As faculty, we're always trying to engage our students better," Smith-Robbins says. "If we see them using a tool like Facebook, there's this huge temptation to say, 'Well, I use Facebook in class,' because that's where they're at. More times than not, it doesn't work because it has to be a pedagogical decision first, rather than a technology decision. Plus, all these tools have their own culture and if you try to use them for something different, you're more often than not going to make mistakes."

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When people on your team make mistakes, you can either berate them or use it as a learning opportunity. Doing the latter builds skills and improves team morale.

Often, the gap between failure and success appears wide, deep and ominous. This perceived gap keeps people frozen in place.