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We started with a mission statement of sorts:

The right kind of failure instructs, refines, and improves ideas, work products, skills, capacities, and teamwork. We aim to support your efforts to generate small, smart mistakes that enable your team to meet its work requirements (a first-order performance goal) while building capacity, habits, and insight (the second-order, deeper change). In other words, we want to help you harness the right kind of failure to get your day-to-day work done while you learn.

Throughout the book, we’ve provided advice on how to do this. To bring our learning journey to a close, we offer some parting suggestions for putting the method into practice.

Advancing the Fail Better Approach

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