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

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

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

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

How to fail is a learnt behaviour

One that most people don’t do well.

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.

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

cc Guillermo Esteves - gesteves.com.

The trick is to know when to adjust your perspective

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

You need to be prepared to handle it.

Know what is in your wing mirror…

And when you need tochoosea different path.

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

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

Wedon’t have the moneysowehave to think. Ernest Rutherford

What am I committed to at work right now?

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

Failure is the Best Possible Outcome

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