Would you be shocked if the leader of a billion-dollar global enterprise bemoaned his company’s lack of failure? A few years ago, when his business was booming and profits were high, I heard just that ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andrea Hill is a multi-industry CEO covering business & technology. Despite $30–40 billion in enterprise investment in generative ...

While discussing inventions, Thomas Edison’s associate, Walter S. Mallory, once said to him, “Isn’t it a shame that with the tremendous amount of work you have done, you haven’t been able to get any ...

Over the past 50 years in the shoe trade, I have had my fair share of failure. The biggest lesson I learned, at the start of my career, is not to devote time and energy to a business or project that ...

Here, the key to understanding the brain is not in the error, but the process of correcting the error. Similarly, in his book To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, the ...

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