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Being wrong won’t always be joyful. The path to embracing mistakes is full of painful moments, and we handle those moments better when we remember they’re essential for progress.
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72 |
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Evidence shows that in learning cultures, organizations innovate more and make fewer mistakes.
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208 |
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When we see people get punished for failures and mistakes, we become worried about proving our competence and protecting our careers.
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209 |
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Having a lot at stake inhibits creativity. So does searching for the one right solution.
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12 |
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We are so afraid of making a mistake that we have lost the courage to do anything spectacularly right.
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5 |
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Bad hires aren’t the only peril. Now the gravest mistakes may involve a failure to hire someone great.
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11 |
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In this re-arranged world, hiring becomes a labored exercise in not making mistakes, rather than an ambitious hunt for greatness.
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87 |
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Even the occasional stumble isn’t really a mistake; it’s a low-cost lesson in how to pick better next time. But when an organization’s destiny hinges on a single hire, everything changes.
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199 |
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…’new mental accounts’… offer a chance to start again by relegating our old selves to the past. It disconnects us from the past self’s mistakes and imperfections, and leaves us confident about our new, superious selves.
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95 |
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…if we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments.
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52 |
