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What Makes a Failure Intelligent

QAspire

The total cost of India’s successful Moon mission was $75M whereas cost of making movies like Interstellar is reported to be $165M. ISRO can be seen as a failure in 2019 but that failure (and all the lessons learned from it) enabled success in 2023. Read my 2015 post on this here. where there are no readymade answers.

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First Look: Leadership Books for September 2023

Leading Blog

Edmondson We used to think of failure as the opposite of success. After decades of award-winning research, Amy Edmondson is here to upend our understanding of failure and make it work for us. In Right Kind of Wrong , Edmondson provides the framework to think, discuss, and practice failure wisely.

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3 Functions Within Life Cycles of an Organization

Ron Edmondson

In each life cycle, the most successful organizations I have been a part of had a team skilled at three separate functions. BTW, every team needs these people to be successful.) But on successful teams, all three are operating together within a life cycle. There are life cycles of every organization.

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Balancing Between My Yes and No as a Leader

Ron Edmondson

The fact is, as with any organization, we operate with limited resources and sometimes saying no is the right decision at the time. Does the leader of this area have the experience or expertise to lead a successful venture? (If Would waiting enhance or inhibit the decision’s success? Is this the best timing for the new venture?

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5 Shared Traits of Effective and Healthy Teams

Ron Edmondson

We have to keep up in terms of progress and innovation, but we can’t do it at the expense of good people. The environment, in which the team operates, is more important than it ever has been in my leadership. Proper accountability Teams fail when no one holds the members accountable for success.

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But Does Collaboration Really Work?

Lead Change Blog

Of course, there were some great books such as those by Morton Hansen, Amy Edmondson, and Ron Ricci. Gathering information and different perspectives may actually inhibit innovation. Collaboration can promote laziness because success is not any individual’s direct responsibility. There was little written about it.

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Life Cycles of an Organization: And the Team That Leads Them

Ron Edmondson

In each life cycle the most successful organizations I have been a part of had a team skilled at three separate functions. BTW, every team needs these people to be successful.). But on successful teams, all three are operating together within a life cycle. I have written about organizational life cycles before.