Silvana Avinami was already mentioned in one of my earlier posts this week. After that post we connected and communicated on Facebook, followed each other on Twitter, I forwarded the interview at UpMo to a couple of my coachees as an example why networking is important. And I started reading her blog, which by itself is worth reading.
Today I ran into a blog post at Silvana’s blog about failure and I was triggered by the title. Failure has a negative connotation, so why would a successful person as Silvana write about failure? And last but not least connect it in the title of the blog post to success. So there she had my attention, I read the post and viewed all 8 minutes of the very interesting movie tight to it about Honda and failure.
Failure suddenly is being put in a different light. It is not negative, it is a learning point. That fits perfectly with my own thinking and way of doing. Don’t ask people what went wrong, ask them what they learned and what can or should have been done differently. Unfortunately in many of today’s corporations there is no room for failure and the current economics won’t be helpful there either. Often failure leads to bad performance appraisals and sometimes even worse. The learning point is forgotten, as I believe the culture in many companies is not to learn from failures but to move on as quickly as possible and forget about the failure, find a new success. Well as Silvana puts it, maybe failure leads to the new success?
failure is a possibility
