Build a Successful Business: The Entrepreneurship Collection (10 Items)

CHAPTER 8

Our Design-for-Learning Foundations

Why do some failures lead to eventual success when so many others do not? We’ve argued that the difference lies in what’s learned from each experience. Because there’s power in understanding what makes for instructive mistakes, we’d like to introduce you to the foundations that underlie the Fail Better method and provide the rationale behind its steps.

Our goal is to equip you with knowledge and guidance for making the Fail Better approach work for you, your team, and your organization. Learning about the conditions that enable instructive failure can help you implement the method more effectively and avoid unproductive missteps.

There’s a second benefit to understanding these design-for-learning ...