People have the right to fail.
Otherwise, they stop thinking and then you’ll need more management to manage them because you have to think for them.
But if they failed and if they correct it, then the failure has real value.
Ken Hendricks
Stole the above quote from a friend’s blog.
Something similar was shared with me over the weekend. Does professionalism mean that we cannot make any mistakes? Does it mean that we need to put in place a million and one checks to make sure that a mistake doesn’t every happen?
Having said that, my opinion is that when mistakes happen, it is important that responsibility be taken. Acknowledge that the mistake has been made, learn from it, know what has happened, and move on.
I think it is in our nature that we don’t want things that we care about to fail. We work towards the success of whatever it is that we are working on. Imagine yourself managing a project at work. Do we consciously work towards the failure of the project?
Some food for thought… Cheers… :Þ