Celebrate Your Mistakes: And 77 Other Risk-taking, Out-of-the-box Ideas from Our Best Companies

Offering a fresh perspective on business, employees, the marketplace, the competition and the world in general, Celebrate Your Mistakes spotlights a trend that has permeated large corporations for years. Blinded by success, many companies feel invincible and simply refuse to adopt change. The text explains how to prevent this from happening, focusing on the value of breaking down barriers and taking risks. It demonstrates how not to be paralyzed by your own successes and recommends a straightforward approach for careful self-examination and evaluation. Filled with exercises, anecdotes, practical pointers and case histories, Celebrate Your Mistakes even provides examples of specific business behaviors and attitudes, analyzing their evolution and ramifications. Most importantly, it explains why it is important to scrutinize mistakes and precisely what can be learned from them. A series of exercises is included to help alert you to impending failures.