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Peter Hill: Looking beyond ourselves and our church walls to find humility
Owning our limitations may not be comfortable, but it can help us be humble, says the Biola University psychology professor.
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Laura Everett: How is repairing the church like mending a garment?
A guide to clothing repair offers a useful discernment process for leaders trying to figure out how to repair a broken church, says a Christian leader who practices textile mending.
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Dave Odom: Ash Wednesday instills a leadership discipline, even for a novice
Themes of confession and repentance connect across faith traditions and reinforce important traits for those in positions of authority, writes the executive director of Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
Failure:Lab holds TED-like events at which successful people talk about a personal struggle or failure.
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Jonathan Williams: Sharing stories of failure can give people the power to succeed
Honest conversations about failure help people realize that they are not alone in their struggles, and that can give them the encouragement to succeed, says a founding partner of Failure:Lab.
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L. Roger Owens: If a job’s worth doing, it’s worth doing poorly
Is good always the enemy of great? Or can insisting on doing everything right prevent us from taking action at all?
Learning the lessons of failure
One of the activities our institutions should regularly engage in is a candid debriefing of the experiments we are trying.
Learning how to learn from experience
Executives who can articulate what they learned from failed choices can recover and move on. The key to learning to do that is to ask for and offer clear feedback.
Persevering through failure as the key to execution
Rather than avoiding it, how might your institution encourage and embrace moments of failure?
L. Gregory Jones and Nathan Jones: Success as the byproduct of repeated failure
A young scientist was discouraged by how often his experiments led nowhere. And then he figured out that repeated experimenting and failure was the path to groundbreaking solutions.
L. Gregory Jones and Kelly Ryan: Failing to learn
The problem is not just that some Christian institutions are failing but that we are not experimenting, failing and then learning from our missteps to create more sustainable, innovative institutions.