Management and creative thinking
If you’re doing something interesting, mistakes are inevitable. How you learn from your mistakes defines what kinds of mistakes you’ll make the next time: the same ones? New ones? Mistakes that get you closer to success or move you away from it?
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(Formerly titled 'The art of project management') Ten years of lessons on leading teams and managing projects, applied to real everyday situations. An Amazon.com Editor's best of pick for 2007.
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[...] Some good advice about the important role of mistakes and what to do with them. My goal has always been to make “interesting mistakes.” New essay: how to learn from your mistakes. If you're doing something interesting, mistakes are inevitable. How you learn from your mistakes defines what kinds of mistakes you'll make the next time: the same ones? new ones? mistakes that get you closer to success or move you away from it? [...]