Happy Fails To You

Why take time to consider our mistakes? Because we learn from them.  As the songwriters have often said, it is in the places that we are broken that the light shines through.  Engineers Without Borders, a Canadian non-profit, publishes an annual Failure Report.  Although this is an international organization, there is much our local, regional, and statewide organizations can glean from these reports about communication, failure to get buy-in, relationship building, and thinking about the ramifications of our actions.  Any of those issues sound familiar?  You can read some of EWB's Failure Reports at http://dxpj7nxwqticg.cloudfront.net/wp-content/themes/whiteboard/reports/EWB%20-%20Failure%20Report%202012.pdf

If you are considering the value of this approach for your organization, Failforward.org offers a free download of Failure Report  A How-To-Guide at http://failforward.org/learning-modules/failure-reports/

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