Strategy For Learning From Failure
Strategy For Learning From Failure

Summary/Abstract: For a long time the classical organization had a hostile attitude toward mistakes. It was believed, and still does, that errors should never happen, because detailed instructions, prescribed standards, and procedures are specified in the process of carrying out operations, activities, and tasks. Mistakes were considered unacceptable, because of that they were often covered up, and when the errors were obvious, no one learned from them, nor individuals nor organizations or their parts. The wisdom of learning from mistakes and failures in modern conditions is indisputable. Yet, few organizations do it. The fact that people are not dedicated to learning is not the reason for this. Managers in different companies genuinely wanted to help their organizations to learn from their mistakes and failures to improve future endeavors. In some cases, their teams have devoted much time to subsequent examination, retrograde studies, and similar arrangements. However, the efforts of these acts did not lead to positive outcomes. The main reason is in the wrong thinking and approach to mistakes and failures, i.e. people were thinkingincorrectly over errors. The paper deals with strategies for learning from mistakes in order to minimize their negative effects and impacts

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