“We should celebrate failure!” One of my friends said over a beer. “If so, I have a lot to celebrate but don’t have a lot of money to dot it with.
Like many business mantras ‘celebrating failure’ is nice to say until you’ve actually experienced it.
Failure tastes pretty bitter and it isn’t pleasant when you encounter it. For some, it could kill their careers.
When you hear business gurus and snake oil merchants expounding the mantra of embracing failure it’s worth considering survivor bias when you hear the case studies
It’s also worth looking at the state of their suit and how desperately they are selling their box set of inspirational DVDx or books.
Yes, but without failed businesses we are Soviets.
Totally agree TNA – risk and failure are part of life, we should learn from what didn’t work but the people telling us to celebrate failure are either those who haven’t experienced it in a big way or are trying to sell us something.