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Acceptable Failure

While failure is often identified as a necessary part of learning, not all failure productively advances learning or growth. The authors of this blog identify three conditions which must be met in order for failure to actually enable improvement.

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January 5, 2017 | By Paul LeMahieu and Donald J. Peurach

We’ve heard them so much they’ve become clichés: “Fail fast; fail often!” “Failures are gifts.” “Leaders must learn to tolerate failure.” “There’s no shame in failure, the shame is when we fail to learn from our failures.” These are powerful statements that urge new attitudes and new ways of operating in improving organizations. But the stakes are high … Read the full blog post here.

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