The Mistake Manifesto: How Making Mistakes Can Make Us Better…

by theEmother | May 20, 2011 | business ideas & thinking, so you think you're in business

While I am not advocating that we all run around blundering and goofing up all the time—and certainly none of us like dealing with people who make the same mistake over and over—our fear of mistakes has a very high cost.

We exert enormous energy blaming each other when something goes wrong rather than finding a solution. Defensiveness and accusations take the place of apologies and forgiveness. Mistake-avoidance creates workplaces where making changes and being creative while risking failure is subsumed by an ethos of mistake-prevention at the cost of daring and innovation…
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The Mistake Manifesto: How Making Mistakes Can Make Us Better
By Alina Tugend for ChangeThis.com