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Assess without blame

Assess without blame

- One of the greatest challenges you'll face as you work to build a great company culture is fear, especially fear of failure. And one of the most important systems you can build to support great culture has to do with how you assess failure. As an education professional, I resonate with entrepreneurial notions like fail fast and fail forward. I've seen the power of failure to teach students and employees about themselves, their processes, and about the work they're trying to accomplish. And while you might agree with my sentiment, you've likely also seen the blame game played out in your organization, nothing squelches innovation and morale like blame that's why Jim Collins talks about great companies conducting autopsies without blame, and why Brene Brown replaces failures with the word learnings. If you want to have a great company culture, you're going to have to assess challenges without blame. As you establish…

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