Incubator Pod Session 4; Learning from failures Preparation
In preparation for Incubator Pod session #4 on learning from failures, you are invited to read the following articles:
- This article titled “Strategies for Learning from Failure,” published in the Harvard Business Review, provides a nice framework for conceptualizing failure according to different types: preventable, complexity-related, and intellectual. It further explores building a culture of learning from failure and how to promote experimentation in the workplace (in the face of failure). While written for a business audience, this article is easily translatable to medicine and scientific discovery. https://hbr.org/2011/04/strategies-for-learning-from-failure
- For those interested, this next article published in the Scientific American breaks down a very detailed article published in Nature that models failures across three disparate domains including repeated attempts by investigators to obtain NIH funding, innovators successfully exiting their startup ventures, and terrorist organizations claiming causalities in violent attacks. What they found may interest and surprise you. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1725-y