How does your company treat failure? Put another way, how safe do your employees feel to admit they got something wrong? “We celebrate our failures,” former Google CEO Eric Schmidt once said. Google ...

Failing is an essential part of growth and learning. Not only does it provide valuable lessons, it also helps identify areas for improvement.

Failure is inevitable as an entrepreneur, so it’s important to develop a healthy attitude about it. Here are four lessons you can learn from failing.

I consider myself to be something of an expert on failure. I’ve failed more times than I care to count, both in my personal life and my career. And some of my failures were truly epic. All joking ...

In our experience, one of the scariest snakes in the room is the fear of failure, which manifests itself in many ways like fear of being judged, fear of getting started, fear of the unknown. And while ...

Imagine you are watching a movie, a delightfully engaging and entertaining film. Now imagine that the person sitting next to you is an acclaimed director, an expert at making movies. Will you see the ...

It’s important for all entrepreneurs to learn how to accept failure — it happens to everyone. Here’s how you can use it to promote success. Introducing “pre-mortems” in startups can create awareness ...

Mistakes are inevitable, but we should embrace them, experts say. By Jancee Dunn When Sara Blakely, founder of the shapewear brand Spanx, was a child, her father would pose an unusual question to her ...

Failure is an inevitable, healthy, and normal part of life—and a great way to “practice” failure is though youth sport. Being able to embrace failure and grow from it are skills, and testing those ...

A chemist at the 3M research lab had been working to develop an adhesive strong enough to be used in the construction of an aircraft. One of those many failures resulted in a thin, weak substance that ...

Let’s start with a fun exercise: Go here, and play this little game, originally designed to discuss government policy making. How did you get on? Statistically, many of you will have failed, as ...