Failure is one of our key opportunities to learn from experience. In many respects, we learn more from our failures, those efforts that did not work, than we do from our successes. But it requires paying close attention. The virtuous cycle of plan, implement, evaluate, works well personally as well as professionally. Oftentimes, our failure is related to poor planning, but more often to poor execution of strategy. Leaders are often better at planning than they are at implementing, because the latter requires causing people to truly follow you, … [Read more...]