The Other F Word: How Smart Leaders, Teams, and Entrepreneurs Put Failure to Work

Leverage the power of failure in your organization

Nobody wants to fail, but failure is a fact of life. Most of us treat it as a regrettable, even shameful, event best overlooked. In truth, failure can be a game-changing strategic resource that can help you and your organization achieve the greater success you crave.

The Other F Word shows how successful leaders and teams are putting failure to work every day - to re-engage employees, spark innovation and accelerate growth. Authors Danner and Coopersmith - with their rare blend of senior-level executive experience, global advising, teaching acumen and cross-discipline perspective - share these valuable new practices, and show how they can improve results across your organization. Based on exclusive interviews with prominent leaders and insightful examples from their own in-depth work, the book features a practical seven-stage framework to liberate failure as a force to advance your leadership agenda. After all, everyone creates and confronts failure on a daily basis. Why not use it to your advantage? The Other F Word shows you how to:

• Start an open, productive conversation about failure across your organization
• Reduce the fear of failure that stifles initiative, creativity and engagement
• Anticipate, prepare for and respond to failure, so you can leverage it when it happens
• Harness failure as a catalyst to drive innovation, improve performance and strengthen culture

Failure's like gravity - pervasive and powerful. Whether you're a leader or team member of a startup, a growing business, or an established enterprise, failure is today's lesson for tomorrow. Let The Other F Word show you how to apply this lesson and take your company where it needs to go.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 03/16/2015
ISBN: 9781119017660
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 1.00d