Great Reads on Failure: Help Build a Collection of Insights

by Stefan Lindegaard

As I continue to look into the ideas of smartfailing and failsourcing, I want to build a collection of articles with insights on how we can become better at learning through failure.

As a start, I have posted the below 8 articles. It would be great if you can add more articles by posting a comment. I will then update this post frequently.

When Failure is Intolerable by Scott Anthony

Welcome Failure by Paul Sloane

Lessons from Google Wave and Microsoft Kin by Scott Berkun

Learning from Failure: What Scientists Know about Innovation by Kris Halvorsen

The Failure of Failure by Michael Schrage

Safe-fail Probes by David Snowden

Are You Squandering Your Intelligent Failures? by Rita McGrath

Failing to Learn and Learning to Fail (Intelligently)...

Smartfailing – a concept for learning through failure

by Stefan Lindegaard

We need to become better at learning through failure, but the word failure itself is so negatively loaded. How can we create a new concept and vocabulary on the intersection of failure and learning?

This is my input based on my early thoughts and great input from Twitter conversations (#failsourcing):

Smartfailing – a new concept for learning through failure

Failsourcing – the process in which you learn from your own and others failures

Fail Capital – the learning you extract from failsourcing

Return on Failure – the ratio of the actions you take and investments you make once you know your fail capital

The key element is to learn from failure. Your input is highly appreciated. For your inspiration, the Twitter conversation spurred...