It's OK to Fail, but You Have to Do It Properly

Harvard Business Review · Oct 28, 2026 · 43m

It's OK to Fail, but You Have to Do It Right

27 Jul 2023

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If you're trying new things and not all of them succeed, that's called experimentation. When you deviate from known practice because of inattention or lack of training, on the other hand, that's probably a mistake. For this episode of our video series “The New World of Work”, HBR editor in chief Adi Ignatius sat down with Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson, an expert in psychological safety, to discuss: + Good and bad types of failure + Dangers of not experimenting enough + The tension between paying close attention to…