
Innovation
Why Embracing Failure is the Wrong Message
Face it: Failure stinks. No one I know likes it. And even the most successful and creative people I know, don’t celebrate things that turned out poorly.
Yet a mantra that has emerged in the last five years is to “celebrate” failure. Really? Celebrate?
While I get, on some level, the reasoning to encourage people to take a risk and actually “do something” – the notion of celebrating failure is not, what I believe, is in anyone’s best interest.
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