Failure is the best possible outcome

Innovation is a constant process of trial and error.
You need the willingness to fail all the time.
John Backus – Computer Scientist

That Will
NEVER WORK!

G.Apostolo "The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Helicopters", 1984

What were
youthinking?

Thomas Edison's Patent Application for the Light Bulb (1880) ourdocuments.gov

CREDIT: 1912. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.

How do you handlefailure?

How to fail
is a learnt
behaviour

One that
most people don’t do well.

We start learning young…

SUCCESS
FAILURE

Great companies
and great people
fail often.

We will nevermake a 32-bit operating system
Bill Gates 1989

Being a market leader
is even more reason to think outside the square.

cc Ham Hock

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

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cc Guillermo Esteves - gesteves.com.

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The trick is
to know when to adjust
your perspective

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Sometimes we get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority.
Bill Gates 1998

Failure is not an option…

But it will always happen!

You need to be
prepared to handle it.

Know what is in
your wing mirror…

And when you need tochoosea different path.

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Credit - Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) Keynote Screen Shot June 8 2009

I’m not technical
How does this
relate to me?

ATTACHMENT
COMMITMENT

Wedon’t have the moneysowehave to think.
Ernest Rutherford

What am I committed to at work right now?

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What can you do to change the way thatyou think aboutfailure?

Failure is the best possible outcome

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