fear of failing fast: how to avoid sabotaging your success
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Fear of Failing FastHow to Avoid Sabotaging Your Success
Leslie HawthornRed Hat
Cerner DevCon 2016
The Smithsonian
Apollo 13
No one from the Apollo 13 crew
nor NASA was known to
utter these words.
Won't many fail?
The simple answer is yes.
Jim WhitehurstCEO, Red Hat
The Open Organization
So if we all know these things …
Why is it still so hard?
MAF: Micromanagement in Avoidance of Failure
Only Setting Goals You Know You Can Achieve
Avoiding discussions of failure entirely ...
Or only when exhorting to push forward to victory!
A Few Ways to Do It Better
Failing the Right Way
v
Celebrate What You Learned by Failing
Fail Cake
Make Failure + What You Learned from It
An Integral Part of the HR Process
I liked ….
I wish ….
I wonder….
Measuring the Impact of Failing to Fail
Own Your Mistakes
Photo Credits● Smithsonian: https://www.flickr.com/photos/candescence/1144433183/
● Apollo 13 Capsule: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jopoe/3111916954/
● Failure is not an option tee: https://www.truffleshuffle.co.uk/product/6261/womens-blue-failure-is-not-an-option-nasa-t-shirt?tsID=7sr567g0bmkvqg1elev9nfj2l5 (considered fair use)
● Failure is a requirement: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kjarrett/8063226488/
● Team with microscopes: https://www.flickr.com/photos/zeissmicro/8864950302/
● Stretching is good: https://www.flickr.com/photos/activefree/1175037582/
● Company meeting: https://www.flickr.com/photos/quazie/3910922714/
● Fireworks: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jdmoar/14500663567/
● Totoro cake: https://www.flickr.com/photos/69302634@N02/14847787076
● Team with hands: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibendum84/5483569272/
● Dandelion: https://www.flickr.com/photos/8047705@N02/5572197407/
● Water droplet: https://www.flickr.com/photos/walter-wilhelm/4074938798/
● Einstein quote: https://www.flickr.com/photos/celestinechua/10417682004/
● Coffee cup: https://www.flickr.com/photos/75001512@N00/8348676731/
The Legal Bits
● All images in this presentation are copyright their respective owners and are used under a Creative Commons License or considered fair use.
● The Open Organization by Jim Whitehurst is copyright Red Hat, Inc.
● This presentation is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Please use, remix and share widely!
– For license information, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/