Speaking of practicing what I teach, my colleague, Dr. Cheryl Lentz, publisher of the Refractive Thinker and also a Phoenix faculty, shared an article she wrote that reminded me to be OK with taking the bruises. Fail Faster, Succeed Sooner, reminds us that with every failure there is incremental growth. She suggested that I share it with my new MBA students who are generally pretty stressed about starting the program. The message – the quicker you learn how NOT to do something, the better you get at doing it right.
Granted, this is more about management than leadership, but a recent Gartner study found that the most effective leaders are those that care about the development of their people. A significant factor of that approach is an environment where people feel they can try and fail and try again and succeed.
