![The enemy of success isn’t failure; it’s inertia. Albert Einstein said: “a person who never made a mistake never tried anything new”.
[[MORE]]In science there’s no such thing as failure or success, merely disproved hypothesis. So, in order to fail...](https://64.media.tumblr.com/31cdd92a067d88abfe5a6ad70eb6b202/tumblr_nwx4f4vjfz1uxr35ho1_1280.jpg)
The enemy of success isn’t failure; it’s inertia. Albert Einstein said: “a person who never made a mistake never tried anything new”.
In science there’s no such thing as failure or success, merely disproved hypothesis. So, in order to fail you need to do something: collect information, test information, turn that information into knowledge. If you’re not doing that you’re not failing, you’re doing worse than failing. You’re doing nothing.
If you do fail. Fail fast. Use your new-found knowledge to tinker, nudge and put right. It’s a continual cycle of doing.
Be guided by a line from US motivational speaker Tony Robbins: ‘What you know doesn’t mean shit. What you do means everything’.
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![At work we often don’t have enough information from which to build an accurate picture. But we’re programmed to make meaning where there is none.
[[MORE]]Information contradicting cherished beliefs can be disturbing. When we feel threatened we draw...](https://64.media.tumblr.com/29c482e47b7901befcadd340951f4faa/tumblr_nwvc9iL0Gq1uxr35ho1_540.jpg)
![“Knowledge is power” runs the cliché. But in the industrial age of command and control hierarchy this line meant: guard knowledge; hoard it. Be a knowledge miser.
[[MORE]]Having a head full of knowledge made you indispensable to your organisation.
In...](https://64.media.tumblr.com/bdf1a92dad9681db31bbdd85946cfd38/tumblr_nw3fthy7bO1uxr35ho1_540.jpg)
![Hierarchical management is bad for business. Command and control works well in bureaucratic organisations operating in slow moving, stable industries where firms can concentrate on looking inwards to driving out inefficiencies.
[[MORE]]Seen any...](https://64.media.tumblr.com/402071edd46605cb05e6afbcc7930acc/tumblr_nvxu5vwUO21uxr35ho1_1280.jpg)
![Managers have moved from knowledge hoarders to knowledge pumps. The moniker: ‘knowledge is power’ is being replaced with ‘power belongs to the network’.
[[MORE]]Writing in the Harvard Business Review Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms describe a growing...](https://64.media.tumblr.com/ca74bac0cbb7000ead217ec01e13af53/tumblr_nwk2bzEUVY1uxr35ho1_540.jpg)
