Leading Thoughts for February 1, 2024

IDEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with:

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Matthew Syed on giving failure a makeover:

“Self-justification is insidious. Lying to oneself destroys the very possibility of learning. When a plane has crashed, it’s difficult to pretend the system worked just fine. The failure is too stark, too dramatic. Most failure is not like that. Most failure can be given a makeover. You latch on to any number of justifications: ‘it was a one-off,’ ‘it was a unique case,’ ‘we did everything we could.’”

Source: Black Box Thinking: Why Most People Never Learn from Their Mistakes—But Some Do

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Sam Walker on finding leaders:

“I started to suspect that the real reason we can’t agree on the formula for elite team leadership is that we’ve overcomplicated things. We’ve been so busy scanning the horizon for transformational knights in shining armor that we’ve ignored the likelier truth: there are hundreds upon thousands of potentially transformative leaders right in our midst. We just lack the ability to recognize them.”

Source: The Captain Class: The Hidden Force That Creates the World's Greatest Teams

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