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Friday
Sep192008
Fail Forward to Success
Friday, September 19, 2008 at 03:18PM Wealth of Wisdom 
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Highly successfully people routinely practice failing forward. They decide on the best action, take it, and view failure as feedback. Instead of making failure personal, they ask a valuable question. What did I/we learn from what didn't work? Research tells us that geniuses share a similar point of view. When Thomas Edison was asked about his 101 failed attempts at getting the light bulb to work, he replied that he did not consider those unsuccessful attempts failures. From his perspective he had found 101 ways a light bulb didn't work.
No Failure...Only Lessons Learned
What difference would this shift in thinking make if you applied it right now to what you're working on in your business, leadership or life?
Reader Comments (3)
Successful joint ventures require patience, discipline, focus, a willingness to interact and build relationships and a willingness to step outside your comfort zone. In any business building credibility, plays a major role in the level of success you can achieve, but what if you are new to an industry? How can you build credibility that will help you to grow your business faster? And if your business is based online, how would the search engines view credibility?
I had fun reading your article and I agree on what has been written on this article. Some thought that failure is the sign to stop. But I think it is just the start of going to success.
When you are new to an industry, building relationships with credible businesses for whom your service or product can add value is one way to build credibility. While "faster" may be preferable, it is not always better.