Failing can actually be a wonderful learning opportunity. We need to recognize that fail is a great thing, because failure suggests that we are operating at the outside of our abilities. You know, you remind me of a company i worked for many years ago. It was really something that helped desensitize people to failure and encourage learning.
“The less time you can spend dwelling on your mistakes, the more mental energy you can devote to doing what you need to do in that moment.” On this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, Christian Wheeler, the StrataComm Professor of Management and Professor of Marketing at Stanford Graduate School Business, sits down with podcast host and lecturer Matt Abrahams to talk about embracing failure and managing your team in-the-moment.
“When we’re confronted with personal failure, it feels bad to us. And we work hard to try to avoid that failure, and that can often be counterproductive,” Wheeler says. “But failing is something that’s on the pathway to success.”
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