The joy of failure
“We only learn through failure. This quote attributed to the legendary alpinist Reinhold Messner holds a lot of truth in it. Modern organizations like to talk about good failure culture, but is failure in every circumstance a good thing? Probably not. As a software engineer and climber I saw a few fails with sometimes quite drastic consequences. Failure is never the goal but sometimes unavoidable, so how can we as individuals, teams and companies benefit from it?