I am continuing to march through my list of 12 Things Good Bosses Believe over at HBR as we get close to the official release of Good Boss, Bad Boss. My last post — #8 on the list — digs into a familiar theme for readers of this blog and my books, "Forgive and Remember" It is currently #1 on HBR's "Most Read" list. Here is how it opens:
I have authored or co-authored five books for managerial audiences in
the past decade. If you want to save yourself the trouble of reading all
of them, and just want to know the one idea that I believe to be most
important, this is it: Failure is inevitable, so the key to success is
to be good at learning from it. The ability to capitalize on hard-won
experience is a hallmark of the greatest organizations — the ones that
are most adept at turning knowledge into action, that are best at developing and implementing creative ideas, that engage in evidence-based (rather than faith- or fear-based) management, and that are populated with the best bosses.
I'd love to hear any reactions or arguments you might have — there are already 16 comments and a good conversation over at HBR so you might want to check that out.
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