How important is falling down and failure to developing future success?
In a previous post I shared how entrepreneurs and organizations explore enabling risk taking and even failure to foster innovation and creativity.
Recently, Guy Kawasaki showed how the 40-30-30 rule applies as well to business as it does to sports: 40% physical training, 30% technical skill and experience, and 30% willingness to take risks. The moral? If you haven’t had a good fall, you probably aren’t trying hard enough nor taking enough risks.
I find the upside to this rule in our potential to learn from our mistakes and the path that new learning can take. Falling down or failure can produce learning in the form of a new approach, an innovation upon a stagnant theme or a creative tact – all because we chose to push the envelope a little further and fell along the way.
Falling for Success
How have you or your business gained from a recent failure?
What are you doing to increase measurable risk taking away from routines?
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