Fail Better, Anjali Sastry
Fail Better, Anjali Sastry
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Fail Better
Design Smart Mistakes and Succeed Sooner

Author: Anjali Sastry, Kara Penn

Narrator: Callie Beaulieu

Unabridged: 8 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/24/2017


Synopsis

If you're aiming to innovate, failure along the way is a given. But can you fail better? Whether you're rolling out a new product from a city-view office or rolling up your sleeves to deliver a social service in the field, learning why and how to embrace failure can help you do better, faster. Smart leaders, entrepreneurs, and change agents design their innovation projects with a key idea in mind: ensure that every failure is maximally useful. In Fail Better, Anjali Sastry and Kara Penn show how to create the conditions, culture, and habits to systematically, ruthlessly, and quickly figure out what works, in three steps: 1. Launch every innovation project with the right groundwork 2. Build and refine ideas and products through iterative action 3. Identify and embed the learning Fail Better teaches you how to design your efforts to test the boundaries of your thinking, explore crucial interdependencies, and find the factors that can shift results from just acceptable to groundbreaking-or even world-changing. Practical instructions intertwined with compelling real-world examples show you how to: - Make predictions and map system relationships ahead of time so you can better assess results - Establish how much failure you can afford - Prioritize project activities for disconfirmation and iteration - Learn from every action step by collecting and examining the right data - Support efficient, productive habits to link action and reflection - Distill, share, and embed the lessons from every success and failure You may be a Fortune 500 manager, scrappy start-up innovator, social impact visionary, or simply leading your own small project. If you aim to break through without breaking the bank-or ruining your reputation-this book is for you.

Reviews

Goodreads review by অর্ণব on November 12, 2014

grabbed after seeing the reco on HBR verdict: 4* this book is unique and has very helpful relevant advises with contemporary examples for anyone who is interested in the concepts of "change management" and "lean management" principles......more

Goodreads review by Darren on December 23, 2014

Failure can be good. We can learn by it. If we have to fail why don’t we fail in a good, positive way? Maybe it is a cultural difference as in many countries failure is seen as a very bad thing, something to be ashamed of. Naturally you don’t want to fail and you don’t set out to sabotage your own pr......more

Goodreads review by Catherine on December 08, 2018

I found this book to be more of a practical guide than a compelling read, and I had to put it down halfway through. I feel it is a book best used as a reference tool, and I will likely return to it next time I'm working on a complex project. However it's not a book that I would pick up and read just......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on July 12, 2017

It's a generally good book offering helpful strategies for businesses, not very exciting to read tho.......more

Goodreads review by Yuthea on September 15, 2019

Not bad.......more