fear of failing fast: how to avoid sabotaging your success

Fear of Failing FastHow to Avoid Sabotaging Your Success

Leslie HawthornRed Hat

Cerner DevCon 2016

The Smithsonian

Apollo 13

No one from the Apollo 13 crew

nor NASA was known to

utter these words.

Won't many fail?

The simple answer is yes.

Jim WhitehurstCEO, Red Hat

The Open Organization

So if we all know these things …

Why is it still so hard?

MAF: Micromanagement in Avoidance of Failure

Only Setting Goals You Know You Can Achieve

Avoiding discussions of failure entirely ...

Or only when exhorting to push forward to victory!

A Few Ways to Do It Better

Failing the Right Way

v

Celebrate What You Learned by Failing

Fail Cake

Make Failure + What You Learned from It

An Integral Part of the HR Process

I liked ….

I wish ….

I wonder….

Measuring the Impact of Failing to Fail

Own Your Mistakes

Thank You!

Leslie Hawthorn@lhawthorn

lhawthor@redhat.com

Photo Credits● Smithsonian: https://www.flickr.com/photos/candescence/1144433183/

● Apollo 13 Capsule: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jopoe/3111916954/

● Failure is not an option tee: https://www.truffleshuffle.co.uk/product/6261/womens-blue-failure-is-not-an-option-nasa-t-shirt?tsID=7sr567g0bmkvqg1elev9nfj2l5 (considered fair use)

● Failure is a requirement: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kjarrett/8063226488/

● Team with microscopes: https://www.flickr.com/photos/zeissmicro/8864950302/

● Stretching is good: https://www.flickr.com/photos/activefree/1175037582/

● Company meeting: https://www.flickr.com/photos/quazie/3910922714/

● Fireworks: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jdmoar/14500663567/

● Totoro cake: https://www.flickr.com/photos/69302634@N02/14847787076

● Team with hands: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibendum84/5483569272/

● Dandelion: https://www.flickr.com/photos/8047705@N02/5572197407/

● Water droplet: https://www.flickr.com/photos/walter-wilhelm/4074938798/

● Einstein quote: https://www.flickr.com/photos/celestinechua/10417682004/

● Coffee cup: https://www.flickr.com/photos/75001512@N00/8348676731/

The Legal Bits

● All images in this presentation are copyright their respective owners and are used under a Creative Commons License or considered fair use.

● The Open Organization by Jim Whitehurst is copyright Red Hat, Inc.

● This presentation is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Please use, remix and share widely!

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