The book Adapt - Why Success Always Starts with Failure by Tim Harford explores the need to fail and learn from failure before success is possible. This book reinforces that receiving constructive feedback is a gift that helps us improve.
Tim Hartford lays out the painful lessons learned and maybe not learned from the war in Vietnam and how this influenced the change in strategy in Iraq post Donald Rumsfeld. He also examines the willingness of the choreographer, Twyla Tharpe to accept the criticism of her recent work and use that information to improve her production. She is a very successful choreographer and could have arrogantly assumed that she new better.
In a separate book about screenwriting an author notes that heroes change and adapt to overcome obstacles. Villains stay the same and die. This is true of organizations, institutions and creative people.
Tim Hartford - Why We Need to Fail
The book, Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure is available from Amazon.com.
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