Failing and Failing Forward with Ashley Good, Founder and CEO of Fail Forward
From A People Perspective
English - June 10, 2024 06:29 - 1 hour - 33.3 MBCareers Business recruiting talent acquistion people ops human resources Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Ashley Good, CEO and founder of Fail Forward, discusses the importance of embracing failure and creating a healthy relationship with it. She shares her personal journey and the inspiration behind starting Fail Forward.
Takeaways
Failure is a natural part of life and should be embraced as a learning opportunity.Creating a healthy relationship with failure involves destigmatizing it and having open conversations about it.Organizations need to shift their mindset and embrace risk and innovation in order to adapt to a rapidly changing world.Embrace failure as a learning opportunity and create a culture that allows for open discussions about what didn't work.Focus on the small things that you have control over and gradually build the skill of killing low-value work.Challenge the bias towards constantly being busy and prioritize the right things over doing things right.Develop a healthy relationship with failure by practicing self-compassion and giving yourself grace.Chapters
(00:00) Introduction and Door Number C
(03:00) Aliens and Favorite Albums
(06:01) The Importance of Failure
(10:11) Grocery Bag Indulgences
(13:32) Ashley's Journey and the Birth of Fail Forward
(23:30) Selling Failure as a Business
(27:26) Why Failure is Hard for Us
(31:20) The Importance of Learning from Failure
(35:09) The Momentum Around Failure
(36:37) Saying No to Low-Value Work
(37:39) Embracing Failure as a Learning Opportunity
(41:45) Killing Projects and the Value of Retrospectives
(50:57) Challenges of Work-Life Balance and the Pressure to be Busy
(01:13:31) The Importance of Self-Compassion in the Face of Failure