One Calendar with Social Networking PowersWithout Failure There is No Learning
An article in the Harvard Business Review by author Robert I. Sutton claims that,“there is no learning without failure.”
Sutton should know. He’s the co-author of five books on managerial audiences (including The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Firms Turn Knowledge Into Action) and he says that failure is widespread before innovation occurs. “The reality is that the typical successful innovator experiences the agony of defeat far more often than the thrill of victory.”
It’s true that failure happens to the best of us. But instead of giving up, Sutton says that we should embrace failure, learn from it, and put those lessons toward our future ideas. “The ability to capitalize on hard-won experience is a hallmark of the greatest organizations,” he says.
“The [people] who are most adept at turning knowledge into action…and those that are the most successful when it comes to developing and implementing creative ideas…[fail and often].”
Read the full article to find out why the most successful creators tend to be those with the most failures.
