Are You Ready To Fail In 2020?
Thursday, January 9th, 2020 Education & TrainingAs you begin the new year, my wish is that you will be ready to fail in pursuit of your innovation vision. That’s right: Be ready to fail. And then accept and learn from your failures.
The last few weeks of 2019 were a time to reflect on the past year’s accomplishments, disappointments, and discoveries.
With the clock striking midnight on Dec. 31, we instantly began to create 2020 — with all of its aspirations, goals, opportunities, market demands, risks and pressures.
In the corporate world, the year barely gets started when leaders are identifying and documenting risks to their plans, then figuring out how to avoid, cover for or mitigate those risks.
However useful the exercise, these and other corporate norms feed employee anxiety about being tagged with failures. They discourage the experimentation that brings about the failures that spawn discoveries.
