Perhaps the most counterintuitive concept to come out of the wild-and-wacky entrepreneurial craze is the notion that failure is a good thing. That it’s not just OK to fail, but beneficial to your ...

*There’s a mantra sweeping across the business world: “Fail fast, fail often.” From Silicon Valley startups to corporate boardrooms, leaders have been encouraged to embrace failure as a path to ...

To thrive in today’s economy you need to fail fast and fail often. Or do you? Amy Edmondson, Harvard Business School’s resident expert on failure, says this mantra is too blunt. You need to learn to ...

If digital is the future of media, then newspapers have a significant learning curve ahead of them — one that will be accelerated by the Silicon Valley mantra "Fail fast, fail often." At least that's ...

When launching a new concept, an unproven idea, it is often more important to get something to market quickly than it is to continue to refine the concept privately. For years, we have advised ...

"Fail fast, fail often" is a business mantra heralded by Silicon Valley. But Harvard Business School professor of leadership Amy C. Edmondson does not agree with it. Instead, she says, you should ...

We’re often told to learn from our mistakes. But Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson says not all failures are created equal. Edmondson argues in her new book, The Right Kind of Wrong, ...