General Card #677
Learning from Failure (e-Learning Module)
Summary
Extract practical lessons from failure!
Description
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Failure is inevitable in life. Engineers must learn the difference between business failure and engineering failure; learn when it is acceptable to take risks; learn to recognize the signs of impending failure and how to avoid it; know how to examine past failures, personal and corporate, in order to learn lessons from those failures; and learn how to persist through failure.
The module “Learning from Failure” covers these items in three lessons:
1. What is Failure?
2. Types and Phases of Failure
3. Case Studies
Curiosity
- Demonstrate constant curiosity about our changing world
- Explore a contrarian view of accepted solution
Connections
- Integrate information from many sources to gain insight
- Assess and manage risk
Creating Value
- Identify unexpected opportunities to create extraordinary value
- Persist through and learn from failure
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