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THE
FAST-FAILURE
FRIENDLY FIRM
FAIL YOUR WAY TO SUCCESS
http://www.flickr.com/photos/geyring/
PROLOGUE
WHY IT MATTERS
Pacemakers
Post-its
Penicillin
The Light Bulb
The Microwave
Corn Flakes
Discovery of the Americas
Kitty Hawk
These were all failures that
led to mondo ducats
But, we shouldn't just say
"Whoo hooo! Let's fail
more!"
Ideally, we should fail more,
but fail smarter
that means we want to fail
when….
1. the costs of failure are low
and the returns are high
2. we can quickly determine if
we're failing, so that we can
pivot quickly
3. we can learn effectively
from the failure
this presentation is about how
managers can build
organizations that can do that
PART ONE
WHAT IS FAILURE?
let's first differentiate
between failures and f@*k
ups
failures are legitimate
mistakes
It's a legitimate mistake when
you…
fumble because you lacked all
the data, but had to move
forward anyway
made a reasonable bet, but
got unlucky with
circumstances
invested in a low cost - high
potential reward experiment
f@*k ups are stupid mistakes
It's a f@*k up when you…
failed to execute due
diligence before or during
failed to learn from a
legitimate mistake and
repeated it
invested in a high cost – low
potential reward experiment
PART TWO
WHY FAIL?
let's talk about 8 reasons why
legitimate mistakes can be
valuable
REASON 1
Fail regularly to ensure that
you keep striving
Failure occurs when you stretch / grow yourself, because you are out of
your comfort level. If you’re not failing, you’re likely not stretching.
Explicitly track (and record) your rate of personal failures. Ensure 1 meaty screw up per
quarter, or force yourself to move into personally uncharted waters.
REASON 2
Fail regularly so that you
continue to be surprised
Surprise is a key to innovation because it reveals opportunities. It also
stores valuable Return on Investment if you learn from it.
Seek out Failure and aggressively run retrospectives (post mortems). Celebrate what you learn
positively, widely, and publicly.
REASON 3
Fail regularly to keep an open
mind
We are biologically predisposed to calcify assumptions & shy from
cognitive dissonance. Shake things up before they can’t be dislodged.
Compose a list of 10 things that you believed 15 years ago, which you now know are false, or
at least, not quite right. Remember how sure you were.
REASON 4
Fail regularly so that you
remind the ego to stay
humble
The greatest danger of confidence is over confidence
Find and listen to the album “Nothing’s Shocking” by Jane’s Addiction. It has nothing to do
with this topic. It’s just a fraking good album.
REASON 5
Fail regularly so that you build
empathy for others who fail
Most people fear failure because of how they think others will see them.
It is peer pressure which makes us avoid what is innately good for us.
Look around for someone who is currently failing and give them a shoulder to lean on. No
questions asked. No judgements made.
REASON 6
Fail regularly so that you build
confidence in your resilience
One of the reasons that it was so hard to shave my head bald for the
Children’s Cancer Foundation Hair for Hope program was the worry that
it wouldn’t come back. It did.
Compose a list of 3 big mistakes you’ve made in your life thus far. Appreciate that you got
through them and that they are not nearly so dire years later.
REASON 7
Fail regularly to build practical
recovery skills so that you get
up faster & stronger next time
‘nuff said
Go back to the retrospective you ran for Reason #2 and analyse the process after the failure
rather than before. Identify 1 thing to improve with recovery next round.
REASON 8
Fail regularly so that failure
becomes less scary &
embarrassing
Once you train your brain to see failure as an opportunity, it will become
one
Find someone who has failed (and who may feel privately ashamed) and let them know
personally that it’s no big deal.
PART THREE
HOW DO YOU BUILD
A FAST-FAILURE
FRIENDLY FIRM
if you are a manager or a leader
and you are now convinced that a bit
more failure would be a good thing for
your group
what do you do?
here are 5 simple, practical things that
you can do at any level of an organization
PRACTICE 1
Iterate Faster & Smaller
PRACTICE 1
Iterate Faster & Smaller
put in place a process to identify low-hanging opportunities where
failure is low cost & high return
PRACTICE 1
Iterate Faster & Smaller
do a bit of shot gunning with the results of the low-hanging fruit review.
Commission many small bets and let the dice roll
PRACTICE 1
Iterate Faster & Smaller
rewire your infrastructure/administration to support quick-iteration
(e.g.: annual budgets….really?!?!)
PRACTICE 1
Iterate Faster & Smaller
add "no-go" tollgates to avoid the basic human hard-wired tendency to
throw good money after bad
PRACTICE 1
Iterate Faster & Smaller
require business cases to identify minimum viable product features and
customer validation metrics from the start
PRACTICE 1
Iterate Faster & Smaller
define exit plans so that features (and applications) are designed for
easy decommission if they don't work
PRACTICE 2
Celebrate Failure
PRACTICE 2
Celebrate Failure
make sure that senior leaders celebrate great post-mortem learnings at
townhalls or team meetings
PRACTICE 2
Celebrate Failure
heck, have those leaders give out an award to the bravest or most
resilient failing team of the quarter
PRACTICE 2
Celebrate Failure
or at least, have them talk openly and broadly about the importance of
smart failure
PRACTICE 2
Celebrate Failure
at every level, use neuro linguistics such as, 'and versus but'
PRACTICE 2
Celebrate Failure
look outside the firm and do positive post-mortems on the mistakes of
competitors or other industry players
PRACTICE 3
Share & Learn from Failure
PRACTICE 3
Share & Learn from Failure
use a tool that helps you effectively share knowledge broadly – check
out Jive, or other Enterprise Social Networks
PRACTICE 3
Share & Learn from Failure
make sure all project leads learn how to effectively facilitate
retrospectives / post-mortems and make sure they do
PRACTICE 3
Share & Learn from Failure
publish retrospectives broadly
PRACTICE 3
Share & Learn from Failure
every year, circle back and review your library of post-mortems for
emergent themes
PRACTICE 4
Habitually Challenge the
Status Quo
PRACTICE 4
Habitually Challenge the
Status Quo
have a annual mechanism to challenge all wisdom that has stood for a
long time, especially during times of market disruption
PRACTICE 5
Hire & Train Sherlocks &
wackos
PRACTICE 5
Hire & Train Sherlocks &
wackos
make sure to hire some folks who are good at forensics
PRACTICE 5
Hire & Train Sherlocks &
wackos
and a few oddball outliers to introduce randomness and surprise
SMART FAILURE IS PROFITABLE
Characteristics of Smart Failures:
• Costs of failure are low and returns are high
• We can quickly determine we are failing so we can pivot
• We learn
LEGITIMATE FAILURES
• You lacked all the data but had to go
• You got unlucky with circumstance
• Low cost of failure & high returns
F@*K UPS
• Lacked due diligence before or during
• Failed to learn
• High cost of failure & low returns
WHY FAIL?
• Ensure that you keep striving
• Continue to be surprised
• Keep an open mind
• Stay humble
• Build empathy for others who fail
• Build confidence in your resilience
• Build practical recovery skills
• Make failure less scary &
embarrassing
MANAGERIAL BEST PRACTICES
• Iterate Faster & Smaller
• Celebrate Failure
• Share & Learn from Failure
• Habitually Challenge the Status Quo
• Hire & Train Sherlocks and Wackos
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Building a fast-failure-friendly firm

  • 1. THE FAST-FAILURE FRIENDLY FIRM FAIL YOUR WAY TO SUCCESS http://www.flickr.com/photos/geyring/
  • 3. Pacemakers Post-its Penicillin The Light Bulb The Microwave Corn Flakes Discovery of the Americas Kitty Hawk
  • 4. These were all failures that led to mondo ducats
  • 5. But, we shouldn't just say "Whoo hooo! Let's fail more!"
  • 6. Ideally, we should fail more, but fail smarter
  • 7. that means we want to fail when….
  • 8. 1. the costs of failure are low and the returns are high
  • 9. 2. we can quickly determine if we're failing, so that we can pivot quickly
  • 10. 3. we can learn effectively from the failure
  • 11. this presentation is about how managers can build organizations that can do that
  • 12. PART ONE WHAT IS FAILURE?
  • 13. let's first differentiate between failures and f@*k ups
  • 15. It's a legitimate mistake when you…
  • 16. fumble because you lacked all the data, but had to move forward anyway
  • 17. made a reasonable bet, but got unlucky with circumstances
  • 18. invested in a low cost - high potential reward experiment
  • 19. f@*k ups are stupid mistakes
  • 20. It's a f@*k up when you…
  • 21. failed to execute due diligence before or during
  • 22. failed to learn from a legitimate mistake and repeated it
  • 23. invested in a high cost – low potential reward experiment
  • 25. let's talk about 8 reasons why legitimate mistakes can be valuable
  • 26. REASON 1 Fail regularly to ensure that you keep striving Failure occurs when you stretch / grow yourself, because you are out of your comfort level. If you’re not failing, you’re likely not stretching. Explicitly track (and record) your rate of personal failures. Ensure 1 meaty screw up per quarter, or force yourself to move into personally uncharted waters.
  • 27. REASON 2 Fail regularly so that you continue to be surprised Surprise is a key to innovation because it reveals opportunities. It also stores valuable Return on Investment if you learn from it. Seek out Failure and aggressively run retrospectives (post mortems). Celebrate what you learn positively, widely, and publicly.
  • 28. REASON 3 Fail regularly to keep an open mind We are biologically predisposed to calcify assumptions & shy from cognitive dissonance. Shake things up before they can’t be dislodged. Compose a list of 10 things that you believed 15 years ago, which you now know are false, or at least, not quite right. Remember how sure you were.
  • 29. REASON 4 Fail regularly so that you remind the ego to stay humble The greatest danger of confidence is over confidence Find and listen to the album “Nothing’s Shocking” by Jane’s Addiction. It has nothing to do with this topic. It’s just a fraking good album.
  • 30. REASON 5 Fail regularly so that you build empathy for others who fail Most people fear failure because of how they think others will see them. It is peer pressure which makes us avoid what is innately good for us. Look around for someone who is currently failing and give them a shoulder to lean on. No questions asked. No judgements made.
  • 31. REASON 6 Fail regularly so that you build confidence in your resilience One of the reasons that it was so hard to shave my head bald for the Children’s Cancer Foundation Hair for Hope program was the worry that it wouldn’t come back. It did. Compose a list of 3 big mistakes you’ve made in your life thus far. Appreciate that you got through them and that they are not nearly so dire years later.
  • 32. REASON 7 Fail regularly to build practical recovery skills so that you get up faster & stronger next time ‘nuff said Go back to the retrospective you ran for Reason #2 and analyse the process after the failure rather than before. Identify 1 thing to improve with recovery next round.
  • 33. REASON 8 Fail regularly so that failure becomes less scary & embarrassing Once you train your brain to see failure as an opportunity, it will become one Find someone who has failed (and who may feel privately ashamed) and let them know personally that it’s no big deal.
  • 34. PART THREE HOW DO YOU BUILD A FAST-FAILURE FRIENDLY FIRM
  • 35. if you are a manager or a leader
  • 36. and you are now convinced that a bit more failure would be a good thing for your group
  • 37. what do you do?
  • 38. here are 5 simple, practical things that you can do at any level of an organization
  • 40. PRACTICE 1 Iterate Faster & Smaller put in place a process to identify low-hanging opportunities where failure is low cost & high return
  • 41. PRACTICE 1 Iterate Faster & Smaller do a bit of shot gunning with the results of the low-hanging fruit review. Commission many small bets and let the dice roll
  • 42. PRACTICE 1 Iterate Faster & Smaller rewire your infrastructure/administration to support quick-iteration (e.g.: annual budgets….really?!?!)
  • 43. PRACTICE 1 Iterate Faster & Smaller add "no-go" tollgates to avoid the basic human hard-wired tendency to throw good money after bad
  • 44. PRACTICE 1 Iterate Faster & Smaller require business cases to identify minimum viable product features and customer validation metrics from the start
  • 45. PRACTICE 1 Iterate Faster & Smaller define exit plans so that features (and applications) are designed for easy decommission if they don't work
  • 47. PRACTICE 2 Celebrate Failure make sure that senior leaders celebrate great post-mortem learnings at townhalls or team meetings
  • 48. PRACTICE 2 Celebrate Failure heck, have those leaders give out an award to the bravest or most resilient failing team of the quarter
  • 49. PRACTICE 2 Celebrate Failure or at least, have them talk openly and broadly about the importance of smart failure
  • 50. PRACTICE 2 Celebrate Failure at every level, use neuro linguistics such as, 'and versus but'
  • 51. PRACTICE 2 Celebrate Failure look outside the firm and do positive post-mortems on the mistakes of competitors or other industry players
  • 52. PRACTICE 3 Share & Learn from Failure
  • 53. PRACTICE 3 Share & Learn from Failure use a tool that helps you effectively share knowledge broadly – check out Jive, or other Enterprise Social Networks
  • 54. PRACTICE 3 Share & Learn from Failure make sure all project leads learn how to effectively facilitate retrospectives / post-mortems and make sure they do
  • 55. PRACTICE 3 Share & Learn from Failure publish retrospectives broadly
  • 56. PRACTICE 3 Share & Learn from Failure every year, circle back and review your library of post-mortems for emergent themes
  • 58. PRACTICE 4 Habitually Challenge the Status Quo have a annual mechanism to challenge all wisdom that has stood for a long time, especially during times of market disruption
  • 59. PRACTICE 5 Hire & Train Sherlocks & wackos
  • 60. PRACTICE 5 Hire & Train Sherlocks & wackos make sure to hire some folks who are good at forensics
  • 61. PRACTICE 5 Hire & Train Sherlocks & wackos and a few oddball outliers to introduce randomness and surprise
  • 62. SMART FAILURE IS PROFITABLE Characteristics of Smart Failures: • Costs of failure are low and returns are high • We can quickly determine we are failing so we can pivot • We learn LEGITIMATE FAILURES • You lacked all the data but had to go • You got unlucky with circumstance • Low cost of failure & high returns F@*K UPS • Lacked due diligence before or during • Failed to learn • High cost of failure & low returns WHY FAIL? • Ensure that you keep striving • Continue to be surprised • Keep an open mind • Stay humble • Build empathy for others who fail • Build confidence in your resilience • Build practical recovery skills • Make failure less scary & embarrassing MANAGERIAL BEST PRACTICES • Iterate Faster & Smaller • Celebrate Failure • Share & Learn from Failure • Habitually Challenge the Status Quo • Hire & Train Sherlocks and Wackos
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