The focus on success means that valuable insights from failure are ignored. Or weeded fast before learning has happened.
High performers stand deliberately on the bridge between success and what did not produce success. This place of perspective is crucial. They ask: what was expected, what happened and what was learned?
The best performers stand on the bridge to pay attention to the failures as much as success. Bill Gates wrote that his favourite book is Business Adventures. It was written in 1969. It chronicles business lessons learned with a heavy focus on failures and flops.
That is a characteristic of all the best performers. They move from ‘this is about winning to ‘this is about preparing to perform’. Failure is gold on the path to gold; and a golden lesson about process not character.
Onwards
Richard
