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Category Archives: Failure
Fallout: The Failure of Dominant Narratives
A dominant narrative is a story that takes on a life of it’s own: it becomes the accepted norm. Throughout the 1950’s and 60’s, all across the United States, tens of thousands of nuclear fallout shelters were built, nearly twenty … Continue reading
Posted in Failure
Tagged Dominant Narrative, Fallout, Government, Narrative, New York, Nuclear War, Story, storytelling
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12 Modes of Failure
Organisations fail for a broad range of reasons, but rarely for no reason at all. I found myself thinking about a taxonomy of failure: unless we deem failure to be the action of idiots and fools, we must be open … Continue reading
‘Safety Making’ – 9 routes to failure
I used a phrase in the blog yesterday, and it’s been stuck in my mind ever since: “People are engaged in some kind of mass hysteria, and mass ‘safety making’”. ‘Safety Making’: I wrote the sentence on an impulse: i … Continue reading
Designing a ‘Festival of Failure’. A #WorkingOutLoud post
Today i am sharing some elements of the design around failure: it’s for a one day ‘Festival of Failure’, a structured ‘sense making’ event, to act as the foundation for change. A celebration of failure is not about blame, but … Continue reading
Posted in Failure
Tagged Change, Failure, Festival, Festival of Failure, Leadership, Learning
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To Fail Fairly
I’m generally unconvinced when people say “it’s ok to fail”. Because it generally isn’t. Failing is typically rewarded with blame and loss. And it can be unfair: not unfair in the judgement, but in the distribution. When we fail, we … Continue reading
The Post Hoc Rationalisation Fallacy
I suspect it’s true that many organisations are highly successful almost despite everything that they do in the formal space to make themselves so. They are successful not because of hierarchy, rules, systems, or control, but rather because they are … Continue reading
Posted in Failure, Measurement, Success
Tagged humility, Leadership, Measurement, Social Age, Socially Dynamic Organisation, Success
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Failure in Social Leadership: a case study for Mozilla
When Brendan Eich, newly installed boss at Mozilla resigned this week after only a month in role, it was largely because of a failure by that organisation to recognise the realities of the Social Age and the importance of Social … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Failure, Leadership
Tagged Brendan Eich, Diversity, Equal Marriage, Equality, Gay Marriage, Leadership, LGBT, Mozilla, OKCupid, Reputation, Social Age, Social Leadership, WorkingOutLoud
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Mobile Learning: The gulf between learning strategy and learning reality
It’s all about perspective. When you sit within a problem, the walls loom up around you, whilst from the outside, the problem can seem quite small, easily surmountable. Perspective is hard to find and harder to retain, so any strategy … Continue reading
Olympic Gold: why do we love a loser?
Whilst everyone loves to see a record breaking performance that scoops Gold, or a plucky effort to secure a Bronze medal, it seems like a peculiarly English pastime to save the biggest cheers for the valiant loser who crosses the … Continue reading
Posted in Achievement, Competition, Education, Failure, Fear, Game, Learning
Tagged Academic, Niger, Olympics, Rowing
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A week of writing: Day 5 – exploring and getting lost
My fifth day of writing led me to complete the section on ‘exploring’. Exploration is the third stage of the learning methodology, sitting after ‘Context’ and ‘Demonstration’, and it’s where we get to play with what we are looking at. … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Exploration, Failure, Learning, Learning Methodology, Lost, Words, Writing
Tagged academic exploration, Exploration, Hedgehog, Learning, Lost, Maze, opposable thumb
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